Dracula: A Biography of Vlad the Impaler, 1431-1476
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Author(s)Radu Florescu
PublisherHawthorn Books
ISBN / ASINB0006C8T3C
ISBN-13978B0006C8T31
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank1,151,871
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476/77), was a member of the House of Draculesti, a branch of the House of Basarab, also known, using his patronymic, as Vlad Draculea or Vlad Dracula. During his lifetime, his reputation for excessive cruelty spread abroad, to Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The name of the vampire Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula was inspired by Vlad's patronymic and reputation.[