Dracula

Name: Dracula
SKU: DRAC
Price: 80 GBP
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£80

Illustrated by Angela Barrett

Introduced By John Banville

Lavishly illustrated by Angela Barrett and beautifully bound in blocked cloth, this new Folio Society edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a fitting tribute to a gothic masterpiece.

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Book Details

Presentation Box & BindingBound in blocked cloth
Printed slipcase
Coloured tops
Ribbon marker

Dimensions10 inches x 6¾ inches

FontSet in Clifford with Bernard as display

Pages400 pages

AuthorBram Stoker

Illustrated byAngela Barrett

IllustrationFrontispiece and 14 full-page colour illustrations with gold, black & white borders, 10 black and white tailpieces

Publication Date12/10/2021

Editor's Notes

Bram Stoker’s masterpiece, in which the instantly recognisable Count Dracula plans to sate his dreadful appetites in England only to be thwarted by an intrepid band of friends, remains an enthralling read. Exploring themes of sexuality, religion, technology and good versus evil, and told through journal entries, letters and telegrams, its cultural and literary significance is undisputed. This collector’s edition includes 15 darkly mesmerising illustrations by acclaimed British artist Angela Barrett, each decorated with an exquisite border. The illustrations accentuate the sense of foreboding and despair in Stoker’s narrative, while the metallic-blocked binding and blood-red marbling on the slipcase complete this sumptuous new edition of the classic 19th-century horror.

About the illustrator

Angela Barrett

Angela Barrett is a writer and illustrator – using watercolour, gouache, coloured pencils and ink – who studied at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art. She has illustrated a number of picture books and children’s novels and is particularly well known for her work on fairy tales. One of Britain’s most respected illustrators of children’s books, she is the winner of a WH Smith Illustration Award and a Smarties Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Barrett has taught illustration at Cambridge College of Technology and drawing at Chelsea College of Arts. She has illustrated Dracula and Anna Karenina for The Folio Society.

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Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College with BA and MA degrees. After working as a theatre critic, he escaped the monotony of a career in the Irish Civil Service by accepting the job of manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which he ran for 27 years. Through the actor Henry Irving (who owned the Lyceum), Stoker became acquainted with leading artistic figures of the day, including Arthur Conan Doyle, and he also travelled widely with Irving, for many years spending summer holidays on the Aberdeenshire coast, where he would concentrate on writing. Dracula was his fifth novel, and it was to have an impact and an enduring appeal its author could never have foreseen. Inspired by a visit to the Yorkshire coastal town of Whitby and Stoker’s research into Central European folklore, the novel reinvigorated the genre of horror literature and has inspired countless adaptations in film and other media. Bram Stoker died at his home in St George’s Square, Pimlico, in 1912.

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He joined The Irish Press as a sub-editor in 1969 and continued to work in journalism for over 30 years. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Sea in 2005, the Franz Kafka Prize in 2011 and the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature in 2013. He has also published numerous crime novels under the pseudonym ’Benjamin Black’.

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