The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2011)
The whole novel, notes at the back, and “Dracula’s Guest” at the end.
You can have the context without the seminar: a compact edition whose notes explain the folklore and the history and then get out of the way.
You want to read the novel properly once, with notes you can check and ignore, in a book that fits in a coat pocket.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the complete novel, plus Stoker’s short story “Dracula’s Guest” as an appendix — an early draft or an abandoned chapter, depending on who you ask.
Changes: nothing in the text. Roger Luckhurst adds an introduction, explanatory notes, a chronology of Stoker’s life and a timeline of vampire fiction before Dracula.
Whose story is it?
the novel’s whole cast, in the order Mina assembles them.
How much time does it ask?
448 pages — a few weeks of evenings.
Oxford World’s Classics, edited by Roger Luckhurst, 11 February 2011, 448 pages, with “Dracula’s Guest”.
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 Dracula edition includes “Dracula’s Guest”?
The Oxford World’s Classics edition, edited by Roger Luckhurst, prints it as an appendix. “Dracula’s Guest” is a Stoker short story usually described as an early draft or an abandoned chapter of the novel.
More Draculas: The Norton Critical Edition, second edition · The Penguin Classics edition (2003) · The New Annotated Dracula (2008)