Dracula

Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the ‘Master’ and his imminent arrival. In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

Editorial Reviews

This illustrated adaptation of Bram Stoker’s work trades the epistolary nature of the original for a condensed, third-person narration, supplemented by selections from Jonathan Harker’s journal entries and from John Seward’s memoirs. Hitting the major plot points, like Jonathan’s arrival at Dracula’s castle and Lucy’s frightening transformation, Raven retains much of the subtle terror of Jonathan’s imprisonment, while providing Mina with more volition (“ ‘Tonight we end this,’ added Mina firmly“). Readers will likely be chilled by Gilbert’s evocative ink and colored pencil images and drawn to the enigmatic Count, with his long, blond hair and violet eyes. A lavish and accessible retelling. Ages 12-up. (July)
– Publishers Weekly

„Glennis Byron’s succinct yet comprehensive introduction provides a useful overview of critical responses to Stoker’s text. Even more valuable is the inclusion of supplementary material (some of which has not, until now been readily available) that clearly places Dracula in its historical context.“
– Elizabeth Miller Memorial University

„Valuable for both research and classroom use. All Dracula scholars will want to own this useful, very reasonably-priced text.“
– Margaret L. Carter Bradley University

„Glennis Byron has done a superb job of collecting just the right supplementary materials to accompany the novel, including reviews by Stoker’s contemporaries, biographical material, information on the social and cultural topics that concerned Stoker and his readers, even a tourist guide to London in the late nineteenth-century.“
– Carol A. Senf Georgia Institute of Technology

„No other edition so carefully assembles a wealth of contextual material, nor succeeds so admirably in drawing the reader into Stoker’s cultural milieu.“

– David Glover University of Southampton