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Title: Dracula: Authoritative Text Contexts Reviews and Reactions Dramatic and Film Variations Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by Bram Stoker, Nina Auerbach, David J. Skal ISBN: 0-393-97012-4 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.20 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: LETTERS PEOPLE
Comment: OK, I want to say something original, as everything said by other reviewers (impeccable novel, interesting essays, etc)is VERY true.
A PLUS: The footnotes. I've found them to be "essential", in the sense that they illuminated the darker (historical references, imagery, sutile actions) paths of Stoker's book.
A MINUS: the tiny letters. This may sound foolish, but it took me forever to adapt to this type of letter. It is as small as it gets, and the lines are VERY close to one another. This should be corrected, because a good edition for readers is as vital as feng shui is to houses (stupid thought, I know, but worth the effort).
Rating: 4
Summary: Bram Stoker's Dracula: A worthwile reading
Comment: When I started to read Bram Stoker's Dracula, I thought that I wouldn't enjoy the style that it was written in. I was worried that the book being written in the form of letters would make it boring and dull. I was wrong. Bram Stoker's writing the book in the form of letters makes it very exciting. Reading about the plot through a first person viewpoint gives the book a thrilling suspense that would have been difficult to achieve otherwise. It is a perfect Gothic story, full of romance, love, horror, and human emotions. The only disappointment that I had in the book was the ending. It was slightly anti-climatic, and was a bit of a letdown. Previously to the ending there had been a large and drawn out build up of suspense and excitement. The book ended far too suddenly. Other than that I enjoyed the book immensely. Anybody who likes a good thriller filled with suspense will enjoy Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Rating: 3
Summary: Harrowing at times; boring at others
Comment: The first part of the book when Hawker is at Castle Dracula is the best part of the book. It's creepy, it's gothic, it is the best written part of the book. Unfortuanetly it goes down scale from their. I think the problem is that Stoker is that great of a stylist. If your looking for an extremely well written horror novel check out Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. If you are willing to make allowances at times this is a good book. It still more worth your time than anything on television though.
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Title: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Modern Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Paul J. Hunter, Mary Shelly, J. Paul Hunter ISBN: 0393964582 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.40 |
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Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton Critical Editions) by Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Linehan ISBN: 0393974650 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.25 |
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Title: Stoker's Dracula (Cliffs Notes) by Samuel J. Umland ISBN: 0822004178 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 28 July, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: In Search of Dracula : The History of Dracula and Vampires by Radu Florescu, Raymond T. McNally ISBN: 0395657830 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 31 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Bram Stoker and the Man Who Was Dracula by Barbara Belford ISBN: 0306810980 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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