The Historian

How does the “Note to the Reader” influence your interpretation of the book? How does the book’s structure, a series of letters, use multiple perspectives to tell one story, and what does this add to the text?

Can Dracula be read as having any redeeming qualities? At what moments does he restrain himself from violence, and how are his actions different from pop-culture depictions of Dracula?

What do books, in general, and the dragon book, in particular, represent within the novel? How are they central to the ensuing research into and search for Dracula? Can books be read as dangerous within the text?