Bram Stoker, Dracula Reviews

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This, in my opinion, is a must for readers who like Victorian horror, although for me it is more of suspense novel.

This edition has a very comprehensive notes section and introduction and it helped me get through some of the dialect (there are sections which are written in Frenetic Yorkshire dielect) these are given numbers which you can refer to in the notes section and it then explains it in plain English.

I think it is well put together and the mish mash of diaries and letters and newspaper articles give to the over all plot in this book.

Some of the dialect, especially the Yorkshire accent, was difficult for me to get my head around and found that I was doing a lot of flicking back and forth for the notes section.

But this doesn't continue throughout the book so it isn't a big negative.

Introduction is very long but is informative about the author, then there is Maud Ellman's note on the text section although they are good I was itching to start the book!!!!

All in all an excellent read and I highly recommend it to all!!

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Horror isn't a genre usually associated with a classic. Most classics (e.g. Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights) have some sort of love story in it, and are kept quite subtle and tend to be light-hearted. So, for Bram Stokers horror story "Dracula" to be classed as a classic can be thought of as odd. The only other 'different' book classed, as a classic is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The two books have been compared for years, and it can become tiresome comparing Dracula ...