Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
For many, Vlad the Impaler is the bloodsucking torturer recreated in Hollywood's Interview with the Vampire and the real character so vitally realized in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the man recreated on screen by screen legends Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee or Gary Oldman, or the vampire stalking through the pages of Ann Rice's novels. Later interpretations see him as a potent symbol of Nazi aggression in World War II, fired partly by Murnau's Nosferatu of the 1920s and the blood rites of the Aryans. But who was the real man who inspired the Dracula legend? Was he as gruesome as legend depicts, or, as some Romanians, refuting the popular image, suggest, an heroic 15th-century warrior and freedom fighter? Or is his reputation as a bloodthirsty mass-murderer, who sadistically impaled his victims, justified? In this title, the author peels back the layers of myth and history to reveal the 15th-century figure who was the real Vlad the Impaler.
Liked Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times Shares nonfiction, history, biography
-
The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age Shares nonfiction, history, biography -
Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula Shares nonfiction, history, biography -
Cowgirls: Women of the American West Shares nonfiction, history, biography
“People who read Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula tend to reach for these next.”
“If you want more of the same (history), start with these.”
“If it was the biography that hooked you, try one of these.”
-
The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind
-
The Roosevelts and the Royals: Franklin and Eleanor, the King and Queen of England, and the Friendship That Changed History
-
Castro
-
Peaches and Daddy: A Story of the Roaring 20s, the Birth of Tabloid Media, and the Courtship that Captured the Hearts and Imaginations of the American Public
