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Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19961001
Author:Anonymous

Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula, by Barbara Belford.

Bram Stoker may seem like the ultimate one-trick pony-known today solely for having written Dracula-but actually he lived a very interesting existence, which brought him into contact with many of the most famous figures of Victorian England, such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and, above all, the great actor Henry Irving, to the managing of whose career Stoker devoted much of his life. With all the recent interest among literary critics in Dracula, the time was ripe for a new biography of its author, and Barbara ...

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