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Stoker's `Dracula' manuscript expected to sell for pounds 1m

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020417
Author:John Vincent

BRAM STOKER'S original manuscript of Dracula is expected to fetch more than pounds 1m when it goes up for sale today at Christie's in New York. The manuscript has been locked in a vault for nearly a century.

The 529-page script, with a different ending and extensive scrawled revisions and deletions by Stoker, bears the Irish author's hand-lettered title page, The Un-Dead. Just days before publication in 1897 the title was simplifed to the name of its main character, the blood-sucking Transylvanian count who swapped his remote ancestral castle to stalk London.

The first edition Dracula had a ...

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