Product Description

Travelling through two hundred years of popular culture and myth as well as graveyards and the wilds of Transylvania, Leslie S. Klinger illuminates every aspect of Bram Stoker's haunting novel (including an examination of the original typescript with its shockingly different ending). He investigates the many subtexts - from the masochistic, necrophilic, homoerotic and 'dentophilic' implications of the story to its political, economic, feminist, psychological and historical threads. Employing his superb literary detective skills, Klinger mines this 1897 classic for nuggets that will surprise even the most die-hard Dracula fans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21462 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 672 pages

About the Author
* LESLIE S. KLINGER is the author of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (The Short Stories ISBN 978 0 393 05916 8 and The Novels ISBN 978 0 393 05800 0). * The New Annotated Dracula includes an examination of the original typescript, with a shockingly different ending, previously unavailable to scholars. * Introduction by Neil Gaiman. * Author website: www.lesliesklinger.com

Customer Reviews

A superb volume packed with trivia, notes and entertainment
'The New Annotated Dracula' is a feature-packed presentation of Stoker's original 1897 novel, presented in it's unabridged version, together with 1500 notes, maps, illustrations, points of history and trivia, excepts from Stoker's edited additional material...in short, everything the Dracula fan could possibly want in a volume, including additional chapters on Stoker's life, information on TV and Film versions of the story etc.

A highly-engaging, enjoyable and informative presentation of this classic work of Gothic literature.

Highly recommended.

Fangs for the Memory
This is a hefty tome, no doubt. The notes are informative for any scholar of victorian literature. Less impressive are the essays on vampire films & subsequent literature which are little more than Mr Klinger's personal taste and opinion. I found the editor/commentator's conceit of taking the text as a factual narrative to be amusing at first but not, finally, satisifying. Bram Stoker deserves to be taken more seriously as a writer in the Anglo-Irish tradition & I would have prefered a more precise approach to this great cultural influence. Still, a pretty book, for collectors.