For the uninitiated, Dracula Daily is an email newsletter. The newsletter follows the events of the classic novel Dracula in the order that they happened chronologically and delivers them in the epistolary way in which the entries were written. When Stoker wrote Dracula, he wrote it via letter and journal entries, which were then compiled […]
Have you ever found yourself reading a book and suddenly the characters are referencing a “classic” text you haven’t read? Or, alternatively, stumbled upon a book in which the characters discuss works you are familiar with, letting you experience their references fully? This is the result of “base texts,” or “basics” or “classics” being utilized […]
Young orphan, Jane, is raised in a strict and dark school where her very existence seems punishable. But following this education, she seeks employment as a governess in a strange household belonging to one Mr. Rochester. Rochester alternates between avoiding and apparently disliking Jane and going out of his way to spend more time with […]
An artist finds a new muse in the form of a young Adonis named Dorian Gray. Dorian is beautiful to an extreme, enchanting, and most importantly: impressionable. But as much as the artist, Basil, wants to keep him to himself he cannot. Basil’s friend Henry arrives and immediately sets about corrupting the young Dorian Gray. […]
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