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Bram Stoker : A Biography of the Author of "Dracula" by Barbara Belford (1996, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679418326
ISBN-139780679418320
eBay Product ID (ePID)629319
Product Key Features
Book TitleBram Stoker : a Biography of the Author of "Dracula"
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHorror & Supernatural, Theater / History & Criticism, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1996
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Non-Classifiable, Performing Arts
AuthorBarbara Belford
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight26.6 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-004632
Reviews"Barbara Belford's historically meticulous, psychologically shrewd life of Bram Stoker goes beyond biography. Her rich and detailed picture of the world of the late Victorian theatre has a purpose: to explain the tenacious power of the sexually charged myth of Dracula." -- Brenda Maddox, author of The Married Man: The Life of D. H. Lawrence "Bram Stoker will be remembered for his devotedly long service to the great actor Sir Henry Irving, excellently commemorated in this fascinating account of their work together." -- Sir John Gielgud "The Lyceum chapters are wonderfully alive: Barbara Belford captures what I am sure are the tone and atmosphere of Irving's theatre, and clarified many things I had never understood about that opaque character Bram Stoker." -- Nina Auerbach
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal823/.8 B
SynopsisHere was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard -- a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels and short stories largely forgotten today. All, of course, except for Dracula, which has enjoyed countless stage and screen incarnations and transformations and haunted the dreams of many generations. Bram Stoker lived at the very center of late-Victorian social and artistic life and numbered among his friends Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Whistler, Gladstone, and Tennyson. But it was his relationship with the mesmerizing, domineering actor Henry Irving that may have played the most crucial role in Stoker's life -- a real-life monster who ultimately led to Stoker's most famous creation. In this book that the Baltimore Sun called "superb, " Barbara Belford draws on unpublished archival material to reveal the links between the reticent author's life, his vampire tale, and the political, occult, cultural, and sexual background of the 1890's.
LC Classification NumberPR6037.T617Z57 1996
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