Bram Stoker

A detailed Summary of Bram Stoker

Copyright 1996 (Modern library edition)

Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847, in Clontarf Ireland, north of Dublin. His full name was Abraham Stocker. He was the son of Abraham and Charlotte. He was the third of seven children. For the first 7 years of his life Bram was bedridden with a flurry of childhood diseases. This led him to spend much of his time reading. Later in his life, after healing from his diseases, he attended Trinity College in Dublin. There, he was an honor student, played soccer, and was involved in marathon running. After he graduated from college he followed in his fathers' footsteps, and became a civil servant at Dublin castle as a junior clerk. He began his literary career in 1871, when he took up a post as the unpaid drama critic for the "Evening Mail," while he was also writing short stories. His first literary success came in 1872, when the London Society published his short story "The Crystal Cup." Bram Stoker encountered Henry Irving, who he had once critiqued while he was at Trinity College. Stoker saw his portrayal of the role Hamlet and wrote a favorable review of it. Irving was impressed with Stoker's review. This resulted in Irving inviting Stoker backs

book that even anything to do with vampires of any sort. The things I've seen about Dracula have all been good. I looked up several book reviews by people, and what customers thought of it, and they were all good. Many of the people thought that it was the best Vampire story ever written, and that it will never be considered a bad book. I would have to agree with them. I don't know if there is anyone I can totally relate to in the story. The only part that comes to mind is when Harker finds that he's trapped in the Count's castle and he talked about how he went mad for a little while. I can understand why he would say that. If I was in a large spooky castle where all the doors were locked, and the only person I'd ever seen in the castle was Dracula, I think I'd go a little nuts too. The book good in my opinion. I enjoyed how the book gave the direct perspectives of all the different characters. The diary format made it more personal too, not just like your reading a story from a 3rd person point of view. With the diaries, it's an up front perspective of the story, like you're right there in all of the action. The most memorable part of the book for me was the final chapter. The professor went into the castle and killed the un-dead in the chapel. Later, when the sun was setting, and Mina and the professor got into the circle, for protection from Dracula, the gypsies had surrounded them. Then, Mr. Morris had arrived with Mr. Harker, getting the gypsies attention. Eventually, they fight the gypsies off, in the process of fighting them, Harker gets Dracula's

tage and from there a good friendship was formed.

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