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Una magnífica edición ilustrada del Drácula de Bram Stoker en Penguin ClásicosJonathan Harker viaja a Transilvania para cerrar un negocio inmobiliario con un misterioso conde que acaba de comprar varias propiedades en Londres. Despues de un viaje preñado de señales ominosas, Harker aborda en el Paso de Borgo un siniestro carruaje que le lleva, acunado por el canto de los lobos, a un castillo en ruinas.Tal es el inquietante principio de una novela magistral que alumbro uno de los mitos mas populares y poderosos de todos los tiempos: Dracula. La fuerza del personaje -apropiado por el cine hasta la saciedad- ha eclipsado con los años la calidad, la originalidad y la rareza de la obra de Bram Stoker, una de las ultimas y mas estremecedoras aportaciones a la literatura gotica anglosajona.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dijo: La mejor historia de diablerie que he leido en muchos años.

Leyenda llevada al cine en numerosas versiones y secuelas," Drácula" es una novela que sintetiza de forma inigualable varias de las más profundas pulsiones del ser humano –la vida, la muerte, la sex

Bram Stokers Dracula is a 1992 American Vampire Gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. Dracula was theatrically released in the United States on November 13, 1992, to positive reviews, though Keanu Reeves performance and English accent received criticism. The film grossed $215 million against a production budget of $40 million. It was nominated for four Academy Awards and won three for Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Makeup while also being nominated for Best Art Direction. Its score was composed by Wojciech Kilar and its closing credits theme "Love Song for a Vampire", written and performed by Annie Lennox, became an international success. My Website: LYFREEDOM.COM

Probabilmente, in linea cronologica, lultimo tra i grandi romanzi gotici, Dracula e anche il piu famoso. Ispirato alla figura del principe Vlad III di Valacchia, e qui che la figura del vampiro viene ripresa e resa immortale. Scritto in forma di epistole, estratti di diario e lettere di vario genere, e interessante notare che Stoker per documentarsi compi una profonda ricerca storica, andando fino alle origini del folclore valacco per creare un personaggio che potesse incarnare tutti gli stereotipi negativi che si possano associare allo straniero, inteso come figura guardata con sospetto perche non se ne conoscono le origini. Con le sue atmosfere cupe, pressanti, con lincombere dellorrore che prevale sulla linea emotiva dei protagonisti e dei lettori, questo e non soltanto uno dei piu celebri romanzi di tutti i tempi, ma anche un interessante indagine psicologica sulla reazione umana a cio che puo rappresentare un pericolo, prima solo ventilato e poi concreto e drammatico. Il Conte Dracula e poi diventato nel tempo uno dei personaggi piu citati nel linguaggio popolare e tra i piu presenti nellimmaginario collettivo. E, naturalmente, anche uno dei piu sfruttati a livello di adattamenti teatrali e sul grande e piccolo schermo, da Bela Lugosi fino alla versione piu recente con Francis Ford Coppola alla regia. Nella storia delle arti popolari moderne, soltanto Sherlock Holmes risulta piu sfruttato di Dracula per adattamenti cinematografici. Allinterno - come in tutti i volumi Fermento - gli "Indicatori" per consentire al lettore un agevole viaggio dentro il libro.

Jonathan Haker, un joven abogado inglés, se ve obligado a viajar al castillo del conde Drácula, en los Montes Cárpatos de Transilvania. Tras permanecer varios días como huésped del conde, descubre que no se trata de una persona comun, sino de un ser despiadado y ruin, quien le impedira abandonar su castillo. Desde este momento, la presencia del conde permanecera en su vida, como una sombra y una maldicion.

Written in 1897, Stokers novel introduces the iconic character of the vampire Count Dracula. Through a series of letters and diary entries, the novel tells the story of Dracula''s attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form as we know it today.

- Esta edición es única;- La traducción es completamente original y se realizó para el Ale. Mar. SAS;- Todos los derechos reservados.Drácula es una novela de terror gótico de 1897 del autor irlandés Bram Stoker. La historia del infame vampiro Conde Dracula, señor de los muertos vivientes, que sale de su ataud por la noche para chupar la sangre de los vivos es, sin duda, materia de pesadillas. Un manicomio, un lugubre castillo de Transilvania, un antiguo cementerio; estos son los oscuros antecedentes de los hechos aun mas oscuros retratados en esta escalofriante historia.

- Cette édition est unique;- La traduction est entièrement originale et a été réalisée pour lAle. Mar. SAS;- Tous droits réservés.Dracula est un roman dhorreur gothique écrit en 1897 par lauteur irla

QUESTO LIBRO E A LAYOUT FISSOChe sorta duomo o di creatura in sembianza duomo e mai questa?Romanzo gotico, scritto in forma epistolare, fin dalla sua pubblicazione a Londra, nel 1897, ebbe un successo immediato. Da allora, film, adattamenti teatrali, fumetti e persino un balletto hanno fatto conoscere la storia del conte vampiro in tutto il mondo.Abraham Stoker (1847-1912), scrittore irlandese, scrisse moltissime opere, tra cui, oltre al celebre Dracula, La catena del destino (1875); Il passo del serpente (1890); Il gioiello delle sette stelle(1903); La dama del sudario (1909); La tana del verme bianco (1911).

Bram Stoker publicou seu romance "Drácula" em maio de 1897, estruturando-o como um romance epistolar, escrito a partir de uma série de cartas, relatos, diários pessoais, reportagens de jornais, registros de bordo, etc. A soluço narrativa do autor foi brilhante: narrar a historia a partir dos diarios e memorandos de seus protagonistas, com isso as confisses e desesperos dos envolvidos na trama vo dando forma ao perigo, que so muito depois se torna completamente evidente. A atmosfera gotica e o pilar do romance: a maior parte da historia se passa na Inglaterra, berço da civilizaço industrial e para onde o Conde se dirige com o intuito secreto de conquistar o mundo, o que e apenas sublimado ao longo da narrativa. As dicotomias entre as figuras do bem e do mal so figuradas nos personagens humanos e nos vampiros. O unico contato entre os universos e a sensualidade e o erotismo. Ainda nesta ediço ha o primeiro capitulo excluido por Stoker quando da publicaço em 1897. Mais tarde este capitulo, rebatizado como o conto "O Convidado de Dracula - Draculas Guest", seria publicado em 1914 pela viuva de Stoker e, desde ento, a critica literaria vem discutindo a importancia deste conto como um capitulo introdutorio de "Dracula".

The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903. The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologists plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. It explores common fin de siecle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress

"A Dream of Red Hands" is a short story by Bram Stoker. It was first published in the July 11, 1894 issue of The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, London.

When Archibald Hunter comes to Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire for his annual holiday he is looking forward to a tranquil few days by the sea, but he is disturbed by strange visions and portents of doom. Where are these terrible visions taking him? And what is the significance of the pages of cipher?

This short story was written by Bram Stoker the world famous author of Dracula. In it a married couple, after trying for many years, has a set of identical twins. The dote on the twins for three years unaware that two neighborhood boys have developed an obsession for destroying things. At first the boys ruin various objects found in their houses. However, as time goes by they become bored with inanimate objects and decide to move on to something else.

"Crooken Sands" is a short story by Bram Stoker. A London merchant takes his family on a Scottish vacation and ends up experiencing a most mysterious horrifying adventure...

Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and color, give a promise of the glory and beauty that encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams. This Country is the Land Under the Sunset. This is the story of that Country, and what happened when evil came to abide there. It is a story all of us must hear.

El conde Drácula es uno de los personajes literarios más famosos de todos los tiempos y fruto de la imaginación del autor irlandés Bram Stoker (1847-1912). Un inmortal vampiro deja los oscuros rincones de su castillo en Transilvania para emprender una macabra aventura en Inglaterra, dejando a su paso muerte, miedo y cambiando para siempre la vida de todos aquellos que se cruzan en su camino.Hace su primera aparicion en las paginas de la novela homonima, "Dracula" (1897) y pronto despierta en el publico universal un apetito voraz por las leyendas vampiricas, inspirando a su vez a numerosos imitadores y dejando tras de si un legado cultural que llegaria hasta nuestros dias. Bram Stoker escribio otras novelas y relatos, antes y despues de "Dracula", y aunque no consiguieron alcanzar el mismo nivel de fama, en ellos demostro un dominio de diversos temas y generos.En el presente volumen, acompañando a su obra cumbre, "Dracula", se encuentran reunidos nueve de sus mejores relatos de terror, repletos de su caracteristica atmosfera gotica y de escenarios perfectos para explorar los limites del horror humano. Contiene ilustraciones ineditas de Alejandro Diaz.

I would rather be an angel than God!The voice of the speaker sounded clearly through the hawthorn tree. The young man and the young girl who sat together on the low tombstone looked at each other. They had heard the voices of the two children talking, but had not noticed what they said; it was the sentiment, not the sound, which roused their attention.The girl put her finger to her lips to impress silence, and the man nodded; they sat as still as mice whilst the two children went on talking.The scene would have gladdened a painters heart. An old churchyard. The church low and square-towered, with long mullioned windows, the yellow-grey stone roughened by age and tender-hued with lichens. Round it clustered many tombstones tilted in all directions. Behind the church a line of gnarled and twisted yews.The churchyard was full of fine trees. On one side a magnificent cedar; on the other a great copper beech. Here and there among the tombs and headstones many beautiful blossoming trees rose from the long green grass. The laburnum glowed in the June afternoon sunlight; the lilac, the hawthorn and the clustering meadowsweet which fringed the edge of the lazy stream mingled their heavy sweetness in sleepy fragrance. The yellow-grey crumbling walls were green in places with wrinkled harts-tongues, and were topped with sweet-williams and spreading house-leek and stone-crop and wild-flowers whose delicious sweetness made for the drowsy repose of perfect summer.