Dracula
by Bram Stoker
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Title: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Type of book: Novel
Genre: Gothic, horror
Original language: English
Written in: London, between 1891 and 1897
Set in: late nineteenth-century England and Eastern Europe
First published: 1897
Narrator: The novel is written in an epistolary format, so the narrator switches frequently. In addition to newspaper clippings, letters, and telegrams, the story is variously told through the diary entries of Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, Dr. John Seward, Dr. Van Helsing and Lucy Westenra.
Protagonist: There is no single protagonist. Count Dracula, however, is the antagonist; therefore, Jonathan and Mina Harker, Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris are all protagonists in their efforts to defeat him.
Point of view: Usually first-person limited from the various perspectives of the main characters; sometimes third-person limited from the perspective of a newspaper journalist.
Tense: Primarily past tense
Climax: Chapter 16, when Arthur Holmwood—aided by Van Helsing, Seward, and Morris—destroys the vampire Lucy Westenra by driving a stake through her heart.
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