[ebooks] Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden - Clarinet in B-flat by Paul Reade in Arts-Photography

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The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. Its recognition factor rivals; in its own perverse way; the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin; rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat; wolf; or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon; David Skal maps out the archetypal vampires relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commidity; digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all.