Dracula

<b>Enriched Classics<b> </b>offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.</b></b> <p/>A true masterwork of storytelling <i>Dracula</i> has transcended generation language and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written. It is a quintessential tale of suspense and horror boasting one of the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula a tragic night-dwelling specter who feeds upon the blood of the living and whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent the helpless and the beautiful. But <i>Dracula</i> also stands as a bleak allegorical saga of an eternally cursed being whose nocturnal atrocities reflect the dark underside of the supremely moralistic age in which it was originally written--and the corrupt desires that continue to plague the modern human condition. <p/>Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of <i>Dracula</i> was prepared by Joseph Valente Professor of English at the University of Illinois and the author of <i>Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker Irishness and the Question of Blood </i> who provides insight into the racial connotations of this enduring masterpiece.