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Discerninghearts.com presents great works in Western literature with Joseph Pierce,

who is an internationally acclaimed author and literary scholar whose work explores the great writers of Western literature through a Catholic and classical lens.

He has written numerous best-selling books on figures such as Shakespeare, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton,

Oscar Wilde, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and El Arbog. A frequent lecture and longtime contributor

to EWTN, he serves as visiting professor of literature at Ave Maria University and as editor

of St. Austin Review.

Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pierce.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor.

When solicitors clerk Jonathan Hawker travels to Transylvania on business to meet a mysterious Romanian count named Dracula,

he little expects the horrors this strange meeting will unleash.

Thus, Bramstoker's 1897 novel of Blood and Passion begins, rapidly accelerating from Harker's nightmarish experiences in Castle Dracula

to a full-fledged assault on late Victorian London itself.

The story, narrated through a collection of documents, primarily journal entries and letters,

chronicles the desperate efforts of a band of gentlemen to protect the virtue of their

ladies and lay to rest the ancient threat once and for all.

Often vacillating wildly between the terrible and the comic, Dracula at the same time brings

to life a host of compelling themes, tensions between antiquity and modernity, the powers and limitations

of technology, the critical importance of feminine virtue, the difference between superstition

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