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This 2008 work is a fantastic resource for those interested in all things Dracula. Klinger piggy backs on a couple of earlier works, namely Leonard Wolf's The Essential Dracula: The Definitive Annotated Edition (1993), and his earlier The Annotated Dracula (1975). Klinger adopts a convention that Bram Stoker is recounting true events, and examines the original manuscript and additional information in that light. The biggest problem I had with this, really, extensive work is that it lacked an index. Having browsed through it I KNOW there's a section on terriers killing rats that discusses in depth how effective these dogs were at doing just that. Without an index to look up "terriers," "dogs," or even "rats" one is left leafing busily through the text to find the relevant annotations.
This is a really fun item to leave on the coffee table (or in the loo) in order to pick up and enjoy. There's a certain Hungarian chicken recipe Klinger recounts, if I could just find it ...
"Klaatu nikto" out of "Klaatu nikto barada" for this one, primarily due to the missing index.
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