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aM stoKer
1847 – 1912, irish
Dracula
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Maurice Hindle and a Preface by
Christopher Frayling
The first—and most chilling—portrait
of the unbridled lusts and desires of a
vampire is still the ultimate terror myth.
560 pp. 978-0-14-143984-6 $11.00
Dracula’s Guest and
Other Weird Tales
Introduction by Kate Hebblethwaite
Although Bram Stoker is best known
for his world-famous novel Dracula, he
also wrote many shorter works on the
strange and the macabre. Comprised of
spine-chilling tales published by Stoker’s
widow after his death, this collection
demonstrates the full range of Stoker’s
horror writing.
336 pp. 978-0-14-144171-9 $16.00
harrIet beecher stowe
1811 – 1896, american
The Minister’s Wooing
Edited with an Introduction by
Susan K. Harris and Notes by
Susan K. Harris and Danielle Conger
In this novel set in eighteenth-century
Newport, Rhode Island, Stowe satirizes
Calvinism, celebrating its intellectual and
moral integrity while critiquing its rigid
theology. With colorful characters and
an element of romance, The Minister’s
Wooing combines domestic comedy with
regional history to show the convergence
of daily life, slavery, and religion in post-
Revolutionary New England.
480 pp. 978-0-14-043702-7 $16.00
harrIet beecher stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811, the
seventh child of Lyman and Roxanna Foote Beecher. At 13, Stowe was sent away
to school in Hartford, rejoining her family in 1832 after their move to Cincinnati,
where her father ran the Lane Theological Seminary. Her proximity to Kentucky,
a slave state, made her and her family increasingly aware of the horrors of slavery,
which they protested vehemently. In 1843 Stowe published her first book, The
Mayflower, followed in 1852 by her bestselling first novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
the first major work of fiction to criticize the institution of slavery. Her instant
success prompted the Independent magazine in New York to offer her a position,
and she was asked to tour England where she was received by Queen Victoria.
She went on to write many more novels, but none are today as well known as her
first, which was the bestselling novel of the nineteenth century. She died on July
1, 1896, and was buried in Andover, Massachusetts.
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