Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-10-31
Books mentioned on The True Story of Dracula
Robert sits down with Jack O'Brien to talk about how the life of a Transylvanian prince turned into the story of Dracula. (1 part) Sources: https://warfarehistorynetwork.
Robert Evans discussed Dracula by Bram Stoker and others, Of Saints and Sinners. Native Resistance to Ottoman Expansion in Southeastern Europe, 1443-1481: George Castriota Scanderberg and Vlad III Dracula by Kurt William Treptow, The Vampire Archives by Otto Penzler and others, and An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans by Lydia Maria Child and others.
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Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 epistolary novel by Bram Stoker that chronicles the vampire's attempt to move from Transylvania to England and his subsequent conflict with Abraham Van Helsing.
Discussed“most people I think are are broadly aware that Dracula, the vampire from the Bram Stoker book and then from I don't know, like a million other books and and pieces of media since, is based on a real guy, Vlad Tepes, better known as Vlad the Impaler.”
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Of Saints and Sinners. Native Resistance to Ottoman Expansion in Southeastern Europe, 1443-1481: George Castriota Scanderberg and Vlad III Dracula
Discussed“The historian was released early because he wrote a book entitled The Life and Times of Vlad Dracul while he was in prison, his lawyer, Liviu Bran, said. The book, penned from September 2003 until October 2006, was counted as community service, Bran told reporters.”
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The Vampire Archives
Discussed“Who in 1819 writes an article called The Vampire, a tale by Lord Byron. And this is this is going to spread this is a very popular story.”
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An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans
An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans by Lydia Maria Child is a prominent historical text advocating for the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Discussed“This is published 14 years before Lydia Child is going to write a book called An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, which is kind of probably the first big anti-slavery book.”
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