Bram Stoker and the Man Who Was Dracula Belford Barbara
Bram Stoker and the Man Who Was Dracula Belford Barbara "What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post. All, of course, except for Dracula, which has enjoyed countless…
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Bram Stoker and the Man Who Was Dracula Belford Barbara
"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post. All, of course, except for Dracula, which has enjoyed countless stage and screen incarnations and haunted the dreams of many generations. Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard--a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels and short stories largely forgotten today.
But it was his relationship with the mesmerizing, domineering actor Henry Irving that may have played the most crucial role in Stoker's life--a real-life monster who ultimately led to Stoker's most famous creation. Bram Stoker lived at the very center of late-Victorian social and artistic life and numbered among his friends Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Whistler, William Gladstone, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. In this book that the Baltimore Sun called