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Dracula. E-book. Formato EPUB. <b>Dracula by Bram Stoker</b> -&nbsp;<i><b>Dracula</b></i>&nbsp;is a novel by&nbsp;Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an&nbsp;epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor&nbsp;Jonathan Harker&nbsp;taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a&nbsp;Transylvanian&nbsp;noble,&nbsp;Count Dracula.<br /><br />Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a&nbsp;vampire, and the Count moves to&nbsp;England&nbsp;and plagues the seaside town of&nbsp;Whitby. A small group, led by&nbsp;Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, in the end, kill him.<br /><br /><i>Dracula</i>&nbsp;was mostly written in the 1890s. Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from&nbsp;Transylvanian folklore&nbsp;and&nbsp;history. Some scholars have suggested that the character of Dracula was inspired by historical figures like the&nbsp;Wallachian&nbsp;prince&nbsp;Vlad the Impaler&nbsp;or the countess&nbsp;Elizabeth B&aacute;thory, but there is widespread disagreement. Stoker&#39;s notes mention neither figure.<br /><br />He found the name&nbsp;<i>Dracula</i>&nbsp;in Whitby&#39;s public library while holidaying there, picking it because he thought it meant&nbsp;<i>devil</i>&nbsp;in&nbsp;Romanian.<br />Following its publication,&nbsp;<i>Dracula</i>&nbsp;was positively received by reviewers who pointed to its effective use of horror. In contrast, reviewers who wrote negatively of the novel regarded it as excessively frightening.<br /><br />Comparisons to other works of&nbsp;Gothic fiction&nbsp;were common, including its structural similarity to&nbsp;Wilkie Collins&#39;&nbsp;<i>The Woman in White</i>&nbsp;(1859). In the past century,&nbsp;<i>Dracula</i>&nbsp;has been situated as a piece of Gothic fiction. Modern scholars explore the novel within its historical context&mdash;the&nbsp;Victorian era&mdash;and discuss its depiction of gender roles, sexuality, and race.