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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 823.8 EAN: 9780393064506 ISBN: 0393064506 Label: W.W. Norton & Co. Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 672 Publication Date: October 17, 2008 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. Studio: W.W. Norton & Co. Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Welcome Addition to the Perfect BookMore than you ever needed to know but everything you wanted to know about the creature that shrieks in the night. Rating: - QuiteQuite a bit of fun learning all the history around the Dracula story. Beautiful edition. Rating:  - A lot to chew onThis isn't quite "CSI:Transylvania" but it's a forensic jigsaw par excellence. It isn't quite "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" but it brings the period and circumstances surrounding the Count and his adversaries and victims to life in a peculiar, compelling way. It helps that I had previously read Stoker's novel, it is VERY EASY to get so sidetracked in the lovely minutiae that one may never find the way back. This is a nice cross between a fantasy world and the real one: informative, entertaining, ... Read More Rating: - gift purchasewas bought as a gift. chose this over the other versions b/c it delved into historical facts and had lotsa pics and interesting trivia type stuff. the recepient seemed genuinely pleased. Rating: - prodigious research and great funI'm staggered by the research it must have taken to present the pages of Victorian minutia that accompany Stoker's florid tale of horror. What great fun...I've pretty much skipped reading the book for the nth time to concentrate solely on the footnotes. That said, I did find the "gentle fiction" of pretending that DRACULA was based on real events more annoying than I expected. But this is a must-have read for any fan of the novel. Enjoy! |
