Name: Dracula (Puffin Classics)
SKU: 2651887
Price: 473.00 TWD
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Author: Holly Black
ISBN: 9780141325668

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bram Stoker

Introduction by

Holly Black

Publisher

Puffin Books

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

640

Format

Paperback

Weight

1.20

ISBN

0141325666

ISBN13

9780141325668

Synopsis "Dracula (Puffin Classics) "

Jonathan Harker is travelling to Castle Dracula to see the Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. He is begged by locals not to go there, because on the eve of St George's Day, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will come full sway. But business must be done, so Jonathan makes his way to the Castle - and then his nightmare begins. His beloved wife Meena and other lost souls have fallen under the Count's horrifying spell. Dracula must be destroyed . . . With an exciting introduction by Holly Black, bestselling author of The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Bram Stoker

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Abraham "Bram" Stoker (Clontarf; November 8, 1847-London; April 20, 1912) was an Irish novelist and writer, known for his novel Dracula

His early horror stories, such as "The Crystal Cup" (1872), were published by the London Society, and The Chain of Destiny in the Shamrock magazine. In 1876, while working as a civil servant, he wrote a textbook named The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879), this book was used as a reference for a long time

Being a theater critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, co-owned by the famous Gothic novelist Sheridan Le Fanu, one of the most important of his time for stories like Carmilla, about a vampire, greatly influenced Stoker when writing Dracula. Stoker's critique of the play was high praise for the performance in Hamlet by actor Henry Irving, who hired him to be his personal secretary and manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London

While working for Irving, he was a literary critic for the Daily Telegraph and wrote several novels like The Snake's Pass (1890) and Dracula (1897) and, after Irving's death in 1905, The Lady of the Shroud (1909) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

His wife was the administrator of his literary estate, and she made known works such as what would be the introduction to Dracula, the short story Dracula's Guest

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Holly Black

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Holly Black (New Jersey, November 10, 1971) is an American writer and editor, known for writing The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of five fantasy books for children, along with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, the Magisterium book series with Cassandra Clare, and The Folk of the Air trilogy

Black was born in New Jersey in 1971, and during her early years her family lived in a decaying Victorian house. Holly Black graduated with a B.A. in English from The College of New Jersey in 1994

She married Theo Black in 1999 and they reside in Amherst, Massachusetts, with their son Sebastian

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