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Dracula Study Guide

by Bram Stoker

Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker. The Dracula study guide contains a biography of Bram Stoker, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Dracula is an epistolary novel, meaning that is composed from letters, journal and diary entries, telegrams, and newspaper clippings. Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray (later Mina Harker), and Dr. Seward write the largest contributions to the novel‹although the writings of Lucy Westenra and Abraham Van Helsing constitute some key parts of the book. The novel is meant to have a slightly journalistic feel, as it is a harrowing account supposedly written by the people who witnessed the book's events.

A young Englishman named Jonathan Harker travels through Transylvania on a business trip. He is there to aid Count Dracula, a Transylvanian nobleman, in buying an English estate. His journey into the remote Eastern European landscape is fearsome…

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• Dracula Summary
• About Dracula
• Character List
• Summary and Analysis of Chapter 1-5
• Summary and Analysis of Chapter 6-10
• Summary and Analysis of Chapter 11-15
• Summary and Analysis of Chapter 16-20
• Summary and Analysis of Chapter 21-24
• Summary and Analysis of Chapter 25-27
• Related Links on Dracula
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 1
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 2
• Author of ClassicNote and Sources

• Dracula: Essays
• Dracula: E-Text
• Dracula: Questions
• Dracula: Purchase the Novel and Related Material
• Bram Stoker: Biography