‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker book for April 2009!

Dracula by Bram Stoker 

The chosen book for the 2009 Dublin: One City, One Book is Dracula by Dublin author Bram Stoker. 

Count Dracula’s castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to face. And back in England eerie incidents are unfolding as strange puncture marks appear on a young woman’s neck. But can Harker’s fiancee be saved? And where is the evil Dracula? 
(From cover of Penguin Classics Edition)

 Quotes:
‘Few novels have gripped the reader so irrestibly…Dracula remains one of the most sexually charged literary works ever written’ Observer

‘Nobody has ever filmed it like Stoker wrote it’ Christopher Lee

‘One of the most powerful horror tales ever written’ Mail on Sunday

‘The classic gore-sucker’ Sunday Times

Now entering its fourth year, Dublin: One City, One Book is a project designed to encourage everyone in the city to read the same book during the month of April each year. The project promotes reading in a city which boasts one of the world’s greatest literary heritages including four Nobel Laureates.

Dracula was written in 1897, and has been translated into many langauges. It has been the inspiration for many other works, and has been widely adapted for the stage and film.

Abraham “Bram” Stoker was born on the 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent (then Clontarf, now Fairveiw) on Dublin’s northside. He died in London on 20 April 1912.

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If you have any queries or would like to know more about 2009 Dublin: One City One Book please contact

Jane Alger,
Divisional Librarian - Readers’ Services,
Dublin City Libraries,
138 - 144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2
Tel: 353 1 674 4809 Fax: 353 1 674 4880 Email: jane.alger@dublincity.ie