... gives to all the story a greater feeling of realism. In fact, the romance is build on the witnesses of Mina Harker, Lucy, Jhonatan Harker, Dr. Seward's phonograph diary, Van Helsing's notes, and so on, as if Stoker only collected and linked already existing papers. This mosaic creates a variety of crossed references that, as the story proceed, draw a ever more definite Count ... , so dear to gothic writers, of the mixture of human and animal natures. In addition to Dracula some other characters have an important allegorical function: for example Van Helsing, the first "professional- Vamp...

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... in a collection of his stories. He published Under The Sun, a collection of children's stories in 1881. Many critics thought the book was unsuitable for children because of the dark, and macabre stories that were in it. One story tells how an orphan girl tries to warn the people of her ... to receive a knighthood from the queen. In 1890, when his romance novel The Snake's Pass was published, he was already making notes for a novel with a vampire theme. In August Stoker, looking for a quiet place to write, took a walking tour of the Scottish coast between Peterhead and Aberdeen, he retur...

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• Grade Level: High School