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Who Is Dracula's Father?: And Other Puzzles in Bram Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece
Hardback
Main Details
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Who Is Dracula's Father?: And Other Puzzles in Bram Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jon Sutherland
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:208 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 206,Width 133 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary reference works |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781785782978
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.8 |
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Publishing Details |
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Icon Books
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| Imprint |
Icon Books
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| Publication Date |
2 November 2017 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
When it was first published in 1897 - 120 years ago - Irish author Bram Stoker's Dracula was ranked by the Daily Mail above work by Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Wuthering Heights. Yet it never made Stoker any money. Since 1931's film Nosferatu the Vampire, however, it has never been out of print and is legendary among fans of the dark, macabre and mysterious ... Critic John Sutherland, a Dracula fan since childhood - and author of the literary puzzle classics Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre be Happy? (both reissued by Icon this year) - explores the enigmas and puzzles of this towering giant of gothic novels such as: Who was Dracula's father? Why does the Count come to England? Does the Count actually give Jonathan a 'love bite'? Why does every country we know of have a vampire legend? And finally - how long is it before we're all vampires?
Author Biography
John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at University College London and an eminent scholar in the field of Victorian fiction, author of many works including The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. He has also written the bestselling popular titles Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre be Happy?, and such scholarly jeux d'esprit as Curiosities of Literature.
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