Bram Stoker : a biography of the author of Dracula
(Book - Regular Print)

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Published
New York : Knopf :, 1996.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Yavapai College Prescott - LIMBO - Items being donated to other libraries
PR6037.T617Z57 1996
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Prescott High School - NF - Nonfiction Books
921 STO 1996
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Published
New York : Knopf :, 1996.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-363) and index.
Description
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 surface: the very model of Victorian modesty, reserve, and duty, the devoted husband and father. In actuality: 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.
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We follow Stoker from his sickly childhood - entertained by his mother's twice-told tales of Irish hobgoblins and banshees - to his years as a Dublin undergraduate student and newspaperman, when he first wrote to his idol Walt Whitman, spilling out his innermost thoughts and beginning a lifelong correspondence that culminated in their meeting when Stoker traveled to America on tour with Irving and Ellen Terry. We see Stoker's childhood friendship with Oscar Wilde, and watch as the two young men compete for the hand of the beautiful Florence Balcombe, who became Stoker's wife. And we see Stoker in the literary and theatrical circles of Victorian London among such figures as Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Whistler, Lord Tennyson, and George Bernard Shaw.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Belford, B. (1996). Bram Stoker: a biography of the author of Dracula (First edition.). Knopf :.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Belford, Barbara. 1996. Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula Knopf, 1996.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula First edition., Knopf :, 1996.

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