The New Annotated Dracula

摘要: In his first work since best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. With a daring conceit, accepts contention that the Dracula tale is based on historical fact. Traveling through two hundred years of popular culture and myth as well graveyards wilds Transylvania, Klinger's notes illuminate every aspect haunting narrative (including detailed examination original typescript Dracula, its shockingly different ending, previously unavailable scholars). investigates many subtexts narrative-from masochistic, necrophilic, homoerotic, "dentophilic," even heterosexual implications story political, economic, feminist, psychological, threads. Employing superb literary detective skills for which he has become famous, mines 1897 classic nuggets will surprise most die-hard fans introduce vampire-prince new generation readers.