This Original Classic Features Dynamic Chapter Linking For Easy Navigation. Dracula is an 1897 epistolary novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. It was first published as a hardcover in 1897 by Archibald Constable and Co. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the Gothic novel and invasion literature. The tale, told as a series of letters, diary entries, & ships' logs begins with Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor, journeying by train and carriage from England to Count Dracula's crumbling, remote castle (situated in the Carpathian Mountains on the border of Transylvania, Bukovina and Moldavia). The purpose of his mission is to provide legal support to Dracula for a real estate transaction overseen by Harker's employer, Peter Hawkins, of Exeter in England. At first enticed by Dracula's gracious manner, Harker soon discovers that he has become a prisoner in the castle.
- ISBN10 110529398X
- ISBN13 9781105293986
- Publish Date 27 November 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook
- Language English