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Dacre Stoker
Dr Elizabeth Miller
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Publisher | Robson Press | ||
ISBN | 9781849541886 | ||
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Vicky
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Synopsis
Recently a long-lost notebook belonging to Dracula author, Bram Stoker, was discovered in the attic of one of his great grandsons. Published to coincide with the centenary of Stoker's death the text of this notebook, written between 1871 and 1881 mostly in his native Dublin, will captivate scholars of Gothic literature and Dracula fans alike. Painstakingly transcribed and researched, the entries offer intriguing new insights into the complex nature of the man who wrote Dracula more than one hundred years ago. Assisted by a team of Dracula scholars and Stoker historians , Dacre Stoker and Dr Elizabeth Miller neatly connect the dots between contents of the Notebook and Bram Stoker's later work, most significantly Dracula.
Dacre Stoker and Dr Elizabeth Miller
Review
I very much enjoyed 'The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker' - it was an incredibly fascinating insight into what made the author tick and who and what his influences where.
Before every chapter there is a facsimile of a page from Bram's journal and it was easy to see why Dacre Stoker and Dr Elizabeth had problems in deciphering it! Throughout the chapters we get lots of anecdotes of life in Ireland, and how as a young child how ill he was, and the kind of stories his mother used to read to him, that in the future would have a tremendous influence on his story telling. His theatre experiences and of course the day job!
There is a wealth of information for the most ardent Dracula and Bram Stoker fan to be satisfied with plus plenty of pictures of the family inside, but only a small drawing of Bram himself plus the picture of the jacket cover.
I highly recommend this book to all those who are interested in how the original story came into being.
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