Description

Welcome to the world of Count Dracula, a man who lives in a crumbling, remote castle in the Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania. Enter in his world a young English solicitor, Jonathan Harker, who visits him to provide legal support for an overseas transaction. But things aren't how they seem to be... the Count isn't who he seems to be. Things begin to start changing when Harker realises that he cannot get out of the castle and manages to barely escape with his life. What is happening? Meanwhile in England, a Russian ship runs aground with the entire crew dead. But only one dead body is found. Where are the others? A beautiful young lady, Lucy Westenra, who also happens to be Harker's fiancée's friend, begins wasting away in a very suspicious manner and dies. Soon after, little kids in England report being stalked in the night by a 'bloofer lady'. Is it Lucy? Is the Count, who by now has come to England, behind all this? Wilhelmina 'Mina' Murray, who by now has married Harker, begins forming a telepathic connection with the Count. Is it because he has not only been feeding from her but also feeding her his blood? In equal measures mesmerizing as it is diabolical, Dracula, told in epistolary format, has become an iconic book. Stoker weaves the themes of sexual conventions, Victorian culture, colonialism, and post-colonialism in this Gothic-horror novel.