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The New Annotated Dracula | 
| Author: Bram Stoker
Creators: Leslie S. Klinger, Neil Gaiman
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $26.37
You Save: $13.58 (34%)
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 28458
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.9 x 1.6
ISBN: 0393064506
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780393064506
ASIN: 0393064506
Publication Date: October 17, 2008
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| Editorial Reviews:
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
A Welcome Addition to the Perfect Book December 18, 2008
BookWoman/BookMan TV REVIEWS (Nashville, Tn United States)
More than you ever needed to know but everything you wanted to know about the creature that shrieks in the night.
Quite December 16, 2008
D. Frye
Quite a bit of fun learning all the history around the Dracula story. Beautiful edition.
 A lot to chew on December 14, 2008
William R. Warren Jr. (Ellensburg, WA USA)
This 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, and visually captivating. But don't expect to sit down and breeze through it: it will require that you devote your attention to it to get the most pleasure out of it.
gift purchase December 6, 2008
Jennifer (PA)
was 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.
prodigious research and great fun December 6, 2008
Diane A. Stuckart (Southern Florida)
I'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!
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