The Penguin Classics edition (2003)
The edition you can find in almost any bookshop tonight.
The first time through, you want the novel and a good introduction, and you want to be able to buy it anywhere.
You have never read it, you want to start tonight, and you want the copy that is on the shelf in front of you.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the complete novel, with an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle and a preface by Christopher Frayling.
Changes: nothing in the text. Penguin also sells it in hardcover, and as a short audiobook read by Richard E. Grant, who is in the cast of the 1992 film.
Whose story is it?
the novel’s, start to finish.
How much time does it ask?
560 pages in paperback.
Penguin Classics paperback, 29 April 2003, 560 pages; introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle, preface by Christopher Frayling.
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
More Draculas: The Norton Critical Edition, second edition · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2011) · The New Annotated Dracula (2008)