The New Annotated Dracula
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...
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Cause for international celebration—the most important and complete edition of Dracula in decades.The Washington Post - Michael Sims…Klinger opens up Stoker's text with irresistible glee, supplying countless marginal notes, illustrations, photographs and other juicy tidbits.
Introduction Neil Gaiman Gaiman, NeilThe Context of DraculaPt. I The Text of Dracula 1Appendix 1 "Dracula's Guest" 503Appendix 2 The Dating of Dracula 517Appendix 3 The Chronology of Dracula 521Appendix 4 A Whitby Glossary 527Pt. II Considering the Count 529Dracula After Stoker: Fictional Accounts of the Count 531Sex, Lies, and Blood: Dracula in Academia 537The Public Life of Dracula: Dracula on Stage and Screen 547Dracula's Family Tree 569The Friends of Dracula 581Bibliography 585Textual Sources 602
\ BookPage“Leslie S. Klinger’s great virtue as an editor is his sublimely willful and scrupulous disregard for the boundary between historical fact and literary falsehood. In The New Annotated Dracula, he reprises the same earlier annotated Sherlock Holmes, treating Stoker’s novel as nonfiction: real events happening to real persons. After a brief preface in which he explains his trick, Klinger’s edition becomes a surreal treat, book’s succession of journal entries and letters.”\ \ \ \ \ Michael Sims…Klinger opens up Stoker's text with irresistible glee, supplying countless marginal notes, illustrations, photographs and other juicy tidbits.\ —The Washington Post\ \ \ Publishers WeeklyKlinger brings the same impressive breadth of knowledge that distinguished The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes to this definitive examination of one of the classic horror novels of all time. Adopting the conceit that Stoker's narrative is based on fact, Klinger elucidates the plot and historical context for both Stoker devotees and those more familiar with Count Dracula from countless popular culture versions. Because he had privileged access to the typescript Stoker delivered to his publisher, Klinger is able to note changes between it and the first edition and comment on the reasons for them. Through close reading, Klinger raises questions about such matters as the role of lead vampire-hunter Van Helsing and whether the villainous count is actually dispatched at book's end. An introduction by Neil Gaiman, numerous illustrations, essays on topics ranging from Dracula in the movies to the academic response, and much more enhance the package. 8-city author tour. (Oct.)\ Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\ \
