Synopses & Reviews
In his first work since his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. With a daring conceit, Klinger accepts Stoker's contention that the Dracula tale is based on historical fact. Traveling through two hundred years of popular culture and myth as well as graveyards and the wilds of Transylvania, Klinger's notes illuminate every aspect of this haunting narrative (including a detailed examination of the original typescript of Dracula, with its shockingly different ending, previously unavailable to scholars). Klinger investigates the many subtexts of the original narrative'"from masochistic, necrophilic, homoerotic, "dentophilic," and even heterosexual implications of the story to its political, economic, feminist, psychological, and historical threads. Employing the superb literary detective skills for which he has become famous, Klinger mines this 1897 classic for nuggets that will surprise even the most die-hard Dracula fans and introduce the vampire-prince to a new generation of readers.
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"Leslie S. Klinger's great virtue as an editor is his sublimely willful and scrupulous disregard for the boundary between historical fact and literary falsehood. In , he reprises the same earlier annotated , treating Stoker's novel as nonfiction: real events happening to real persons. After a brief preface in which he explains his trick, Klinger's edition becomes a surreal treat, book's succession of journal entries and letters." BookPage
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"This is a book every serious reader of the horror genre should have on his or her shelf. You will read with new eyes. Fascinating!" Stephen King
Synopsis
Cause for international celebration — the most important and complete edition of
Dracula in decades.
In his first work since his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. With a daring conceit, Klinger accepts Stoker's contention that the Dracula tale is based on historical fact. Traveling through two hundred years of popular culture and myth as well as graveyards and the wilds of Transylvania, Klinger's notes illuminate every aspect of this haunting narrative (including a detailed examination of the original typescript of Dracula, with its shockingly different ending, previously unavailable to scholars).
Klinger investigates the many subtexts of the original narrative — from masochistic, necrophilic, homoerotic, "dentophilic," and even heterosexual implications of the story to its political, economic, feminist, psychological, and historical threads. Employing the superb literary detective skills for which he has become famous, Klinger mines this 1897 classic for nuggets that will surprise even the most die-hard Dracula fans and introduce the vampire-prince to a new generation of readers.
Two-color throughout; 35 color and 400 black-and-white illustrations.
Synopsis
The bestselling author of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. 35 color and 400 b&w illustrations.
Synopsis
Cause for international celebration--the most important and complete edition of in decades.
Synopsis
In his first work since his best-sellingThe New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S.Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishlyillustrated homage to BramStoker'sDracula. With a daring conceit, Klinger accepts Stoker's contentionthat the Dracula tale isbased on historical fact. Traveling through two hundred years of popularculture andmyth as well asgraveyards and the wilds ofTransylvania, Klinger's notes illuminate everyaspect of this hauntingnarrative (including adetailed examination of the original typescriptof Dracula, with itsshockingly differentending, previously unavailable to scholars).Klinger investigates the many subtextsof theoriginalnarrative-from masochistic, necrophilic, homoerotic, dentophilic, andevenheterosexual implications of the story to its political, economic, feminist, psychological, and historical threads. Employing the superb literary detective skills for which he hasbecome famous, Klinger mines this 1897 classic for nuggets that will surprise even the mostdie-hard Dracula fans andintroduce thevampire-prince to a new generation ofreaders.
About the Author
Bram Stoker (1847-1912), an Irish novelist and short story writer, was known during his lifetime as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned, but is best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.Leslie S. Klinger is the editor of numerous books, including the best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, The New Annotated Dracula, and The Annotated Sandman. He lives in Malibu, California.Leslie S. Klinger is the editor of numerous books, including the best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, The New Annotated Dracula, and The Annotated Sandman. He lives in Malibu, California.Leslie S. Klinger is the editor of numerous books, including the best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, The New Annotated Dracula, and The Annotated Sandman. He lives in Malibu, California.