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Oxford Bookworms Library 2: Dracula

Серия: "Oxford Bookworms Library"

In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead - a vampire that drinks the blood of living people...

Издательство: "Oxford University Press" (2008)

ISBN: 978-0-194-79058-1

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Bram Stoker

Infobox Writer
name = Bram Stoker



caption = Bram Stoker
birthdate = birth date|1847|11|8|df=y
birthplace = Fairview, Ireland
deathdate = death date and age|1912|4|20|1847|11|8|df=y
deathplace = London, England
occupation = Novelist
nationality = Irish
genre = Horror, Romantic Fiction
movement = Victorian

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish writer of novels and short stories, who is best known today for his 1897 horror novel "Dracula". During his lifetime, he was better known for being the personal assistant of the actor Henry Irving and the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.

Early life

He was born in 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent [cite book
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] – then as now called "The Crescent" – today in Fairview, but then Clontarf), Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker [Abraham Stoker was born in 1799; he married Stoker's mother in 1844, and died on 10 October 1876] and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely [Mathilda Blake Thornely was born in 1818; she died in 1901] . Stoker was the third of seven children. [His siblings were: Sir (William) Thornley Stoker, born in 1845; Mathilda, born 1846; Thomas, born 1850; Richard, born 1852; Margaret, born 1854; and George, born 1855] Abraham and Charlotte were members of the Clontarf Church of Ireland parish and attended the parish church (St. John the Baptist located on Seafield Road West) with their children, who were both baptised there.

Stoker was bed-ridden until he started school at the age of seven — when he made a complete recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."

After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete (he was named University Athlete) at Trinity College, Dublin (1864 – 1870), from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society".

Early career

In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book ("The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland", published 1879) and became the theatre critic for the newspaper "Dublin Evening Mail". In December 1876, he gave a favourable review of the actor Henry Irving's performance as "Hamlet" at the Theatre Royal in Dublin. Irving read the review and invited Stoker for dinner at the Shelbourne Hotel, where he was staying. After that they became friends. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in "The Shamrock".

Lyceum Theatre and later career

In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. On 31st December 1879, Bram and Florence's only child was born, a son that they christened Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world. In the mid 1890s, Stoker is rumored to have become a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, though there is no concrete evidence to support this claim. [cite book|title=The occult power behind the spear which pierced the side of Christ |first=Trevor |last=Ravenscroft |year=1982 |publisher=Red Wheel |pages=p165 |isbn=0877285470] [cite book|title=The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ |first=Lynn |last=Picknett |year=2004 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |pages=p201 |isbn=0743273257] . The Golden Dawn was a fraternal magical order that also included among its members author W.B.Yeats, occultist Aleister Crowley, author and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, Arthur Edward Waite, London stage actress and musician Florence Farr and others. Although there is no evidence that Stoker was actually a member of the order, one of his closest friends was J.W. Brodie-Innis, a major figure in the Order, and Stoker himself hired Pamela Coleman-Smith, the artist who created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, a major instrument in the Order, as an artist at the Lyceum Theater.

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Stoker supplemented his income by writing novels; the best known being the vampire tale "Dracula" which was published in 1897. Before writing "Dracula", Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. "Dracula" is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers. Stoker's inspirations for the story were a visit to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, and a visit to the crypts under the church St. John the Baptist where Stoker was baptised.

Death

Bram Stoker died in 1912, and was cremated and his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium. After Irving Noel Stoker's death in 1961, his ashes were added to that urn. The original plan had been to keep his parents' ashes together, but after Florence Stoker's death her ashes were scattered at the Gardens of Rest.

Posthumous

The short story collection "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories" was published in 1914 by Stoker's widow Florence Stoker. The first film adaptation of Dracula was named "Nosferatu". It was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and starred Max Schreck as Count Orlock. "Nosferatu" was produced while Florence Stoker, Bram Stoker's widow and literary executrix, was still alive. Represented by the attorneys of the British Incorporated Society of Authors, she eventually sued the filmmakers. Her chief legal complaint was that she had been neither asked for permission for the adaptation nor paid any royalty. The case dragged on for some years, with Mrs. Stoker demanding the destruction of the negative and all prints of the film. The suit was finally resolved in the widow's favour in July 1925. Some copies of the film survived, however and the film has become well known.

Bibliography

Novels

* "The Primrose Path" (1875)
* "The Snake's Pass" (1890)
* "The Watter's Mou' " (1895)
* "The Shoulder of Shasta" (1895)
* "Dracula" (1897)
* "Miss Betty" (1898)
* "The Mystery of the Sea" (1902)
* "The Jewel of Seven Stars" (1903)
* "The Man" (aka: "The Gates of Life") (1905)
* "Lady Athlyne" (1908)
* "The Lady of the Shroud" (1909)
* "The Lair of the White Worm" (1911)

hort story collections

* "Under the Sunset" (1881), comprising eight "fairy tales" for children
* "" (1908)
* "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories" (1914), published posthumously by Florence Stoker

Uncollected stories

* "Bridal of Dead" (alternate ending to "The Jewel of Seven Stars")
* "Buried Treasures"
* "The Chain of Destiny"
* "The Crystal Cup"
* "The Dualitists; or, The Death Doom of the Double Born"
* "Lord Castleton Explains" (chapter 10 of "The Fate of Fenella")
* "The Gombeen Man" (chapter 3 of "The Snake's Pass")
* "In the Valley of the Shadow"
* "The Man from Shorrox"
* "Midnight Tales"
* "The Red Stockade"
* "The Seer" (chapters 1 and 2 of "The Mystery of the Sea")

Non-fiction

* "The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland" (1879)
* "A Glimpse of America" (1886)
* "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving" (1906)
* "Famous Impostors" (1910)

References and notes

External links

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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A588233 h2g2 article on Bram Stoker]
* [http://Stoker.thefreelibrary.com/ Bram Stoker's brief biography and works]
* [http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/bram_vampires_drac.html 20 Common Misconceptions and Other Miscellaneous Information]
* [http://www.stoker-dracula.org/ The Stoker Dracula Organisation]

Online texts

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* [http://www.geocities.com/psmcalduff/index.html Bram Stoker Page]
* [http://tupperwoods.com/dracula/bram-stokers-dracula/index.htm Bram Stoker's Dracula] full text.

Persondata
NAME= Stoker, Bram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Stoker, Abraham
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Irish novelist
DATE OF BIRTH= birth date|df=yes|1847|11|8
PLACE OF BIRTH=Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
DATE OF DEATH= death date|df=yes|1912|4|20
PLACE OF DEATH= London, England

Источник: Bram Stoker

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