Dracula

In the late nineteenth century, English solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to the Carpathian Mountains near Transylvania to offer legal support and counsel to Count Dracula, who is interested in purchasing an estate in England. Within days, Harker learns the truth about this mysterious Count and realizes that all of the superstitious villagers he met on the way to Count Dracula's castle-all of the lore and legend about the undead-is strikingly real. As Count Dracula presses on with his plans to relocate to England, a group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing must work together to stop the Count from spreading the curse of the undead on English soil. First published in 1897, Dracula remains Bram Stoker's best-known work and one of the most-celebrated Gothic novels of the Victorian era. In addition to intriguing the reader with a tale of horror, Dracula offers a glimpse into social norms and mores of nineteenth-century England, including the role of women, societal conventions, and sexual taboos. It also showcases Victorian attitudes toward immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism. This Bayley Street Press edition is a republication of a standard edition of Dracula published in 1897 by Archibald Constable & Company, London.