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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Dracula (Paperback)
Sir Angels; Stoker Bram
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R465
Discovery Miles 4 650
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Man (Paperback)
Stoker Bram; Edited by Sir Angels
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R361
Discovery Miles 3 610
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Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent seven years researching
European folklore and stories of vampires, being most influenced by
Emily Gerard's 1885 essay, "Transylvania Superstitions." Despite
being the most widely known vampire novel, Dracula was not the
first. It was preceded and partly inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's
1871 "Carmilla," about a lesbian vampire who preys on a lonely
young woman, and by Varney the Vampire, a lengthy penny dreadful
serial from the mid-Victorian period by James Malcolm Rymer. The
image of a vampire portrayed as an aristocratic man, like the
character of Dracula, was created by John Polidori in "The Vampyre"
(1819), during the summer spent with Frankenstein creator Mary
Shelley, her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron
in 1816. The Lyceum Theatre, where Stoker worked between 1878 and
1898, was headed by the actor-manager Henry Irving, who was
Stoker's real-life inspiration for Dracula's mannerisms and who
Stoker hoped would play Dracula in a stage version. Bram Stoker was
an Irish novelist and short story writer, During his lifetime, he
was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and
business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving
owned.
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