![]() ![]() The novel has become a part of the Western popular imagination, drawn as it was from Victorian ideas of morality and reinterpretations of Central European myths about "wampyrs," or vampires. Stoker wrote other novels and short stories before his death, of stroke, in 1912, but none approached the popular acclaim of Dracula. He began writing Dracula, his only successful novel, during this period of employment it went on to become a sensation on its publication in 1897. Stoker later took a job at the London paper The Daily Telegraph, working as a literary reporter and critic. He then embarked on a career in the theater, moving to London and working for the Lyceum, befriending such intellectuals as Oscar Wilde, and working as the Lyceum's stage and business manager for over a decade. ![]() As a young man, Stoker attended Trinity College, Dublin, and studied mathematics. ![]() 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. One of seven children, Bram Stoker was born to upper-middle-class Irish Protestant parents in the middle of the nineteenth century he suffered a grave illness at age seven, which caused him to turn to reading and probably prompted his interest in literature. Bram Stokers Dracula is a 1992 American Gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. ![]()
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