The Gates of Life, Bram Stoker
The Gates of Life, Bram Stoker
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The Gates of Life
A Classic Gothic Romance Story

Author: Bram Stoker

Narrator: Richard T Holt

Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/07/2020

Synopsis

A Gothic Romance novel from Bram Stoker brings you a tale of death, romantic rivalries, spurned love, adventure on the high seas and survival. Lust, greed and broken hearts are aplenty in this romantic novel.Stephen Norman is to inherit her father’s vast fortune and estate. She seeks to ask Leonard Everard (a wastrel) to marry her, but only to prove that she can ask a man to marry her and defy 19th century convention which says a man can only ask a woman to marry; this sets into motion a showdown between two old rivals for her hand in marriage, as Harold An Wolf (a gentleman) is in love with her. This destructive rivalry leads to adventures on the high seas and a love story that spans oceans and continents. Who will win in this love rivalry? Will Stephen Norman marry Leonard, or will Harold win the day, or will she choose a path without either of them?If you enjoyed the classic romance in Dracula then you will love this novel by the king of Gothic, Bram Stoker. His most famous works include The Lair of the White Worm, The Lady of the Shroud and The Snake´s Pass. As well as being an author of Gothic Horror he wrote Gothic romance stories which include The Watter’s Mou and Lady Athlyne. His works are part of the later end of the romantic movement; writers including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, the Bronte Sisters and Jane Austen are amongst his contemporaries in the romantic period.This novel is a classic Gothic tale brought to you by HauntedCryptPublishing.com, we bring the best Gothic stories to life.

About Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a civil servant, and his mother was a charity worker and writer. Stoker studied math at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1867, after which he became a civil servant. At this time, he also worked as a freelance journalist, a drama critic, and editor of the Evening Mail. In 1876, he met Sir Henry Irving, a famous actor. Stoker accepted a job as personal secretary to Irving and went to England in 1878. Before he left Ireland, he published his first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland. While working for Irving he met an aspiring actress named Florence Balcombe. They married in 1878 and had one son, Noel, who was born in 1879. In England, Stoker also began writing a series of short stories and novels, the first of which was The Snake's Pass. Although best known for Dracula, Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on November 02, 2011

Thoroughly impressed by Stoker’s writing in Dracula, I wanted to see how it carried over in work of a different sort. This book, rarely reviewed or described online, seemed a good choice where nobody else’s perceptions influenced mine. We meet lovely teenager Stephen (her father wanted a boy…) and H......more

Goodreads review by blake on November 09, 2021

Stoker finally nails the ending! The previous eight books have suffered from varying degrees of "monster's dead, movie's over" (the closest exception being The Snake's Pass) and here, on his ninth novel with only two more left to go (excluding LotWW) he finally manages to give the denouement an appr......more

Goodreads review by Frank on October 26, 2017

The Man by Bram Stoker is a Gothic romance that follows the life of Stephen Norman, the daughter of Squire Stephen Norman, the lord of the manor in Normanstead. Margaret Rowly marries Squire Stephen whom they raise as a tomboy, as the squire had always wanted a male a heir. Margaret dies, but the sq......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on December 30, 2015

Calling this "a rare novel of fear" is a bit misleading: there are some tense moments, but not enough to qualify the book as a mystery or even really a thriller. It's a bit of a hybrid work, falling more on the side of Stoker's romances (like The Snake's Pass and Lady Athelyne) but even then not qui......more

Goodreads review by EB on October 07, 2014

Surprisingly good.......more

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