The Norton Critical Edition, second edition
The 1897 text, with the reviews, the adaptations and the arguments bound in.
Dracula has been argued about since it came out, and the most useful way to read it is with that argument open beside you.
You want the novel and the long argument about it in one book, and you will read the essays at the back.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the first edition of the novel, Archibald Constable’s 1897 text, chosen by the editors as the historically authentic one.
Changes: nothing in the novel. Around it: background pieces on vampires and the Count, contemporary reviews, selections on the stage and film versions, and eleven critical essays.
Whose story is it?
everyone’s, in Stoker’s order — and then the critics’.
How much time does it ask?
600 pages in Norton’s second edition, edited by David J. Skal and John Edgar Browning.
Norton Critical Edition, second edition, edited by David J. Skal and John Edgar Browning: 600 pages.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
Common questions
Which text does the Norton Critical Edition of Dracula use?
The first edition of the novel, published by Archibald Constable in London in 1897. The second edition, edited by David J. Skal and John Edgar Browning, adds background material, contemporary reviews, selections on the stage and film versions, and eleven critical essays — 600 pages in all.
More Draculas: The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2011) · The Penguin Classics edition (2003) · The New Annotated Dracula (2008)