Stoker's choice of the epistolary form, a literary genre diminishing towards the end of the nineteenth century, also conveys his aim to establish a sense of realism in his story. The book is composed of extracts from characters" diaries, letters and telegrams, all having been carefully dated. ... It is for this reason that Professor Van Helsing, the only character able to give a correct interpretation of events, is rarely given the opportunity to speak directly. His words are reported through the diaries of other characters, so that we are never given his intimate conviction about what is...

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Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 8th, 1847. His father was a civil servant in Dublin Castle, and his mother, Charlotte, was a women's lib advocate. They had seven children in nine years; the third of which was Bram. The first seven years of his life he was bedridden with an undiag...

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