Bram Stoker : a biography of the author of Dracula / Barbara Belford.

Author
Belford, Barbara [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.
Description
xv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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 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.
    • 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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-363) and index.
    Contents
    • Dublin Dreams (1847-1878). The dreamer ; Trinity man ; Drama critic ; Henry Irving.
    • London Limelight (1878-1884). The Lyceum ; First nights ; The Beefsteak room ; America.
    • Literary Overtures (1884-1895). Mephistopheles ;The bloody play ; The occult ; Cruden Bay.
    • Dracula's Secrets (1895-1912). Shaw's dilemma ; Dracula debuts ; Farewells ; The last wave.
    ISBN
    • 0679418326
    • 9780679418320
    LCCN
    96004632
    OCLC
    34077042
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