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With "DRACULA", the Irish author Bram Stoker has created one of the best-known fiction characters of all time. Although Stoker was not the first to write about vampires and during his life, his novel was only a moderate success, his uncanny Count is known all over the world now, not in the least by dozens of movie and theatre productions.
This edition offers the unabridged text of the first publication, commented by a brilliant photo story especially produced for this book.
A bonus feature is the surprising alternate ending, designed to commemorate the centenary of Stoker's death. Young actors from Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic participated in this first photographic project ever to visualise all the plot's key moments.
Added is a groundbreaking essay revealing the true location of Castle Dracula for the first time. Until now, scholars have believed that the novelist had no specific site in mind when writing his story. Analysing the novel's travel descriptions and the writer's own research notes, De Roos demonstrates that Stoker did pick a precise address - but chose to cover it up. With 17 highly detailed colour maps.
In a final essay the author puts an end to over 50 years of debate about the alleged influence of Vlad III Dracula "the Impaler" on Stoker's novel. De Roos explains how Stoker by a literary trap door trick let the historical Voivoide Dracula disppear from his story, so that the Vampire Hunters in the final chapters pursue a nameless - other instead!
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Bram Stoker, geb. 1847 in Dublin, gestorben 1912 in London. Seine Biografie ist hinter dem Ruhm seines Dracula in Vergessenheit geraten. Die ersten sieben Jahre seines Lebens war er durch eine schwere Krankheit ans Bett gefesselt, ein Trauma, das er erst mit der Niederschrift seines Vampirromans ganz überwinden konnte. An der Dublin University entwickelte Stoker ungeahnte geistige und körperliche Talente, wurde Präsident einer philosophischen und einer historischen Studentengemeinschaft und war der Star einer Fußballmannschaft. Nach dem Studium schlug er sich als unbezahlter Theaterkritiker und Zeitschriftenherausgeber durch, bis er 1878 Manager des berühmten Shakespeare-Darstellers Henry Irving wurde. In seiner Freizeit veröffentlichte er zehn Bücher, von denen allerdings nur Dracula internationale Anerkennung fand. Bram Stoker starb 1912, genau zehn Jahre bevor mit Murnaus Film "Nosferatu" der Durchbruch des dunkelsten Helden der Weltliteratur gelang.
