The Man
Enriched edition. Unveiling the Dark Depths of Human Nature in Victorian EnglandBy Bram Stoker
Length12h 8m
About this audiobook
Bram Stoker's "The Man" presents a compelling exploration of the complexities of identity and the human condition through a blend of realism and gothic elements. Set against the backdrop of Victorian society, Stoker intricately weaves a narrative that delves into the psychological struggles of his characters while using vivid imagery and rich symbolism. This novel is often considered a precursor to Stoker's more famous works, allowing readers to witness the early development of his thematic focus on the interplay between societal expectations and personal desires. Stoker, an Irish author best known for his iconic vampire tale "Dracula," was influenced by his own experiences and the cultural tensions of his time. His keen interest in folklore, horror, and the darker aspects of human nature informed his writings. Stoker's engagement with the tensions between modernity and tradition is especially evident in "The Man," highlighting a period of rapid change and reconsideration of what it meant to be human. Readers seeking a nuanced narrative that challenges perceptions of identity will find "The Man" an enlightening and thought-provoking work. Stoker's masterful prose ensures a lasting impact, making it an essential read for those interested in the origins of gothic literature and its exploration of the depths of the human psyche.
In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- An Author Biography reveals milestones in the author's life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Mystery and Thriller
Length12 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 21, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
10CHAPTER XIV—THE BEECH GROVE
2Introduction
11CHAPTER XVII—A BUSINESS TRANSACTION
3Synopsis
12CHAPTER XXII—FIXING THE BOUNDS
4Historical Context
13CHAPTER XXVII—AGE’S WISDOM
5Author Biography
14CHAPTER XXXII—‘TO BE GOD AND ABLE TO DO THINGS’
Show all chaptersShow less
6The Man
15CHAPTER XXXV—A CRY
7FORE-GLIMPSE
16Analysis
8CHAPTER VI—A VISIT TO OXFORD
17Reflection
9CHAPTER X—THE RESOLVE
18Memorable Quotes
DráculaBram Stoker18h 33m$2 · $0.00
Vampires vs. Werewolves – Ultimate CollectionBram Stoker, Théophile Gautier, Rudyard Kipling, Eugene Field, Clemence Housman, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, George Sylvester Viereck, Victoria Glad, Anthony Pelcher, Henry Kuttner, Earl Peirce, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Dudley Wright, Caroline Taylor Stewart, Hume Nisbet, John William Polidori, E. F. Benson, George W. M. Reynolds, Robert E. Howard, Sabine Baring-Gould, Richard Francis Burton, Marie de France, Sheridan Le Fanu, Jan Neruda, Claude Askew, Alice Askew, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Victor Rowan, Alexandre Dumas Père, Gladys Gordon Trenery, Clifford Ball179h 10m$1 · $0.00
Famous Imposters, Pretenders & HoaxesBram Stoker8h 37m$2 · $0.00
DráculaBram Stoker18h 41m$1 · $0.00
BRAM STOKER: 12 Novels in One Volume (Horror Classics Series)Bram Stoker108h 36m$1 · $0.00
Personal reminiscences of Henry IrvingBram Stoker19h 2m$2 · $0.00
WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC - Ultimate CollectionBram Stoker, Charles Mackay, William Godwin, Walter Scott, Charles Wentworth Upham, Jules Michelet, John Ashton, Howard Williams, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Allen Putnam, George Moir, Frederick George Lee, James Thacher, M. V. B. Perley, Wilhelm Meinhold, John M. Taylor, E. Lynn Linton, William P. Upham, W. H. Davenport Adams, M. Schele de Vere, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Samuel Roberts Wells, Margaret Murray274h 34m$1 · $0.00
DráculaBram Stoker17h 30m$13 · $0.00
The Lady of the ShroudBram Stoker13h 6m$2 · $0.00
Die Lady mit dem Leichentuch (Zusammengefasste Ausgabe)Bram Stoker3h 35m$2
Die sieben Finger der Mumie (Zusammengefasste Ausgabe)Bram Stoker4h 2m$2
Colección DráculaBram Stoker20h 9m$1 · $0.00
The Burial of the RatsBram Stoker2h 14m$1 · $0.00
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEABram Stoker17h 13m$2 · $0.00
The Collected Works on Magic & WitchcraftBram Stoker, Charles Mackay, William Godwin, Walter Scott, Charles Wentworth Upham, Jules Michelet, John Ashton, Howard Williams, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Allen Putnam, George Moir, Frederick George Lee, James Thacher, M. V. B. Perley, Wilhelm Meinhold, John M. Taylor, E. Lynn Linton, William P. Upham, W. H. Davenport Adams, M. Schele de Vere, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Samuel Roberts Wells, Margaret Murray274h 47m$2 · $0.00
DRACULABram Stoker17h 39m$2 · $0.00
DráculaBram Stoker18h 41m$2 · $0.00
The Book of WitchcraftBram Stoker, Charles Mackay, William Godwin, Walter Scott, Charles Wentworth Upham, Jules Michelet, John Ashton, Howard Williams, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Allen Putnam, George Moir, Frederick George Lee, James Thacher, M. V. B. Perley, Wilhelm Meinhold, John M. Taylor, E. Lynn Linton, William P. Upham, W. H. Davenport Adams, M. Schele de Vere, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Samuel Roberts Wells, Margaret Murray274h 47m$2 · $0.00
Famous ImpostersBram Stoker8h 36m$2 · $0.00
Reign Of AngelsBen Reeder8h 54m5 (1)$20
We’re AliveKc Wayland5h 10m$15
The Undead PoolKim Harrison16h 13m$33 · $0.00
Glacier's EdgeR. A. Salvatore13h 44m$33 · $0.00
Haint BlueStephanie Alexander11h 55m$23
Good OmensNeil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett12h 33m$33 · $0.00
Dark of NightJonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin4h 59m$20 · $0.00
The Renegade HunterLynsay Sands10h 7m$29 · $0.00
The Fall of the House of CabalJonathan L. Howard14h 54m$23
Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition)Joseph Conrad35h 39m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of E. F. Benson (Illustrated)E. F. Benson335h 9m$1 · $0.00
All I Want for Christmas Is a VampireKerrelyn Sparks10h 27m$29 · $0.00
Corpus HermeticumHermes Trismegistus3h 43m$7 · $0.00
LambChristopher Moore15h 22m$33 · $0.00
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë21h 2m$2 · $0.00
The ExorcistWilliam Peter Blatty12h 52m5 (2)$8 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Mary ShelleyMary Shelley128h 25m$2 · $0.00
Twice TemptedJeaniene Frost8h 17m$26 · $0.00
Between Two FiresChristopher Buehlman14h 25m$23
1984George Orwell12h 18m$25 · $0.00
Midnight ShadowsS.E. Smith5h 40m$17
CollateralBrian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson13h 8m$23
Look TwiceEva Hudson9h 48m$20
The Natchez Burning TrilogyGreg Iles96h 18m$53 · $0.00
The ReunionJana Deleon6h 31m$26 · $0.00
Animal 3K’wan6h 33m$20
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Novels & Stories (4 Novels + 56 Short Stories)Arthur Conan Doyle71h 53m$2 · $0.00
To Hold and ProtectSandra Owens7h 59m$8 · $0.00
The Last StrawSharon Sala9h 1m$29 · $0.00
Savy WisdomPeggy McColl2h 53m$15
Raymond Chandler – Ultimate Mystery CollectionRaymond Chandler82h 8m$2 · $0.00
3 a.m. Premium: Books 1–5Nick Pirog15h 27m$25
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m$53 · $0.00
Sign of the MakerBrian Shea7h 13m$17
Will Trent: Books 5–7Karin Slaughter42h$53 · $0.00
No Sin UnpunishedLynDee Walker7h 43m$17
Sherlock HolmesMade for Success14h 22m$25
Sons of War 4: SoldiersNicholas Sansbury Smith, Tom Abrahams12h 54m$25
Murder in the TowerRoy Lewis8h 23m$20
Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Stories and PoemsEdgar Allan Poe60h 1m$68 · $0.00
You may also like
SO BIGEdna Ferber10h 24m$1 · $0.00
The Enchanted PlacesChristopher Milne5h 22m$14 · $0.00
Bat and the End of EverythingElana K. Arnold2h 40m$18 · $0.00
The RainbowDavid Herbert Lawrence20h 42m$2 · $0.00
Plowing On SundaySterling North6h 16m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Illustrated Edition)Frances Hodgson Burnett244h 47m$1 · $0.00
Squire Arden Volume I-IIIMrs Oliphant22h 34m$2.30
Moral EmblemsRobert Louis Stevenson40m$2.30
A Word to WomenMrs. Humphry3h 7m$2 · $0.00
Legacies of Struggle and Triumph – 3 Classic Literary Fiction NovelsJack London, David Herbert Lawrence, Thomas Wolfe60h 11m$2
The Cook's Wedding and Other StoriesAnton Pavlovich Chekhov6h 52m$2.30
Lives of the PresidentsKathleen Krull3h 3m$15
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second SeriesAnnie Hamilton Donnell, Meredith Nicholson, Edith Wyatt, Mary Antin, Mazo De la Roche, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Elizabeth Ashe, Margaret Prescott Montague, Kathleen Carman, William Addleman Ganoe, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, S. H. Kemper, Laura Spencer Portor, Joseph Husband, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Lucy Pratt, Charles Haskins Townsend, Christina Krysto, Edward Morlae, Ellen Mackubin, Elsie Singmaster, James Edmund Dunning, Lucy Huffaker, Cornelia A. P. Comer11h 55m$2 · $0.00
The Tree of HeavenMay Sinclair11h 31m$2.30
Guys Read: Funny BusinessJon Scieszka, Adam Rex, David Yoo, Paul Feig, Kate DiCamillo, Christopher Paul Curtis, Eoin Colfer, Jack Gantos5h 47m$24 · $0.00
A Son of the SoilMrs. Oliphant19h 59m$2 · $0.00
Ludwig Van BeethovenFranz Hoffmann56m$2 · $0.00
The AccidentalsMinrose Gwin12h 27m$29 · $0.00
A Sydney-Side SaxonRolf Boldrewood5h 18m$1 · $0.00
Work and Play in Girls' SchoolsLucy Helen Muriel Soulsby, J. F. Dove, Dorothea Beale12h 13m$2 · $0.00