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The first full-scale biography of the complex man known today as the author of Dracula, but who was famous in his own time as the innovative manager of London's Lyceum Theatre, home of the greatest English actors of the day, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. Barbara Belford tells the story of Stoker the hidden man. On the the very model of Victorian modesty, reserve, and duty, the devoted husband and father. In a man whose emotional and working energies were in large part expended on the care and cultivation of the flamboyant, mesmerizing genius of the stage, Henry Irving. We see Stoker the writer of novels and stories that were imbued with sexuality, violence, and the celebration of death -- works at opposite poles from the decorum he presented in society. And Barbara Belford shows us in Dracula a mirror of the undercurrents of Stoker's own life, as well as a masked exploration of subjects utterly forbidden in his time -- seduction, rape, necrophilia, incest, voyeurism -- universal taboos dramatized with such a myth-making edge that the novel remains resonant and unsettling almost one hundred years later. We follow Stoker from his sickly childhood -entertained by his mother's twice-to

Author

Belford, Barbara

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780753802168

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Horror

Rating

3.76 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14