Moved!
March 2, 2009
Dublin: One City, One Book has moved to a new site, which can be accessed by going to:-
Don’t forget to update your bookmarks!
‘Dracula’ announced as book for April 2009!
February 11, 2009
The chosen book for the 2009 Dublin: One City, One Book is Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker.
The 2009 Programme will also be announced shortly. Enquiries to jane.alger@dublincity.ie
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? (Book Blurb)
(Acknowledgement: Penguin Classics)
Quotes:
‘Few novels have gripped the reader so irrestibly…Dracula remains one of the most sexually charged literary works ever written’ Observer
‘His tragic tale of longing for his lost love and the difficulties bound up in being immortal is one to really get your teeth into’ Guardian
‘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
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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.
