Stoker, Bram: Dracula

Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ has been reprinted countless times: it is a wonderful story and rightfully a timeless gothic classic. The trick is finding a good version of the book. This edition is the best-quality for price I have found. It provides, in beautiful canvas-bound hardcover, a reprinting of the 1897 first edition, as opposed to the abridged 1901 edition (there are only these two official ‘Dracula’ versions in circulation). This means you are getting the complete Dracula story as first experienced by Victorian readers (not the condensed version Stoker prepared in 1901 which omitted certain scenes). Only minor typographical corrections have been made so that the manuscript fits the Penguin Classics style guide, and certain errors that were made in the 1897 printing have been fixed (four incorrectly listed dates in crucial diary entries, and one misspelled word). For the price point, this is as close to an original edition as a reader can come.

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