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•This Essential Classics edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Annotated) includes a new introduction by Professor Vivian Heller, Ph.D. in literature and modern studies from Yale University.Dracula is a Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, considered to be one of the most enduring and skillful examples of the modern vampire genre. It tells the story of Count Dracula, and of Professor Abraham Van Helsing, who attempts to thwart the vampire in his attempt to move from Transylvania to London, in order to find new blood and spread the undead curse. This Essential Classics edition includes a new introduction by Professor Vivian Heller, Ph.D. in literature and modern studies from Yale University.Bram Stoker was a 19th-century Irish writer best known for Dracula. During his lifetime, Stoker was also the business manager of the Lyceum Theater in London. In order to write Dracula, Stoker spent years researching European folklore and vampire mythology, and the product was the book that would become a classic of horror fiction.Vivian Heller received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Modern Studies from Yale University. She is author of Joyce, Decadence, and Emancipation(University of Illinois Press) and of The City Beneath Us (W.W. Norton & Company), a history of the building of the New York City subway system. She is an associate at Columbia’s School of Professional Studies and is the writing tutor for the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She is also a long-standing member of the non-fiction committee of the PEN Prison-Writing Committee, which awards prizes to inmates from across the country.Essential Classics publishes the most crucial literary works throughout history, with a unique introduction to each, making them the perfect treasure for any reader’s shelf.

• This version of Dracula includes a biography of the author Bram Stoker at the end of the book• This includes life before and after the release of the bookThe world's best-known vampire story begins by following a naive young Englishman as he visits Transylvania to meet a client, the mysterious Count Dracula. Upon revealing his true nature, Dracula boards a ship for England, where chilling and gruesome disasters begin to befall the people of London...

Edition includes:-biography-15 interesting author factsDracula is a gothic horror novel written by Irish author Bram Stoker. The novel tells the story of centuries-old vampire Count Dracula who attempts to leave Transylvania and move to England. He aims to find new blood and spread the undead curse inflicting havoc on the foreign land. Professor Abraham Van Helsing leads a group of men and women who battle with Dracula in an attempt to stop the sinister Count. Stoker has created a horror masterpiece with this novel.In this new Vintage Ink Edition, we delve into the life of Bram Stoker and discuss our top 15 facts you may not know about the illustrious author.

This book has been annotated and the following features make it differentiated...iy contains annotations and illustrations etcannotatedCitations from Bram Stoker life, letters, and other writingsLiterary comments ,review and analysisAn introductionChronology of events and marriagehistorical context more than 10 illustrations of Bram Stoker work work and novelsMaps of Dublin, IrelandDraculaDracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.