Dracula’s Guest was excised from the original Dracula manuscript by its publisher because of the length of the original book. It was published as a short story in 1914, two years after Stoker’s death.
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican poet and diplomat. He was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces
Early in Wilde’s career he wrote more poetry than anything else, and ‘Easter Day’ is one of his finest verses – a nice sonnet about Rome on Easter Day.
This sweet short story is all about transforming the cunning and sophistication of disguise into pleasure, and on the act of revelation by an innocent man.
