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peaygolf said:
May 27, 1897

Greatest book I've ever read!



According to the Daily News of London, the first copies of the classic vampire novel Dracula, by Irish writer Bram Stoker, go on sell on May 27, 1897.

A childhood invalid, Stoker grew up to become a football (soccer) star at Trinity College, Dublin. After graduation, he got a job in civil service at Dublin Castle, where he worked for the next 10 years while writing drama reviews for the Dublin Mail on the side. In this way, Stoker met the well-respected actor Sir Henry Irving, who hired him as his manager. Stoker stayed in the post for most of the next three decades, writing Irving’s voluminous correspondence for him and accompanying him on tours in the United States. Over the years, Stoker began writing a number of horror stories for magazines, and in 1890 he published his first novel, The Snake’s Pass.

Stoker would go on to publish 17 novels in all, but it was his 1897 novel Dracula that eventually earned him literary fame and became known as a masterpiece of Victorian-era Gothic literature. Written in the form of diaries and journals of its main characters, Dracula is the story of a vampire who makes his way from Transylvania—a region of Eastern Europe now in Romania—to Yorkshire, England, and preys on innocents there to get the blood he needs to live. Stoker had originally named the vampire “Count Wampyr.” He found the name Dracula in a book on Wallachia and Moldavia written by retired diplomat William Wilkinson, which he borrowed from a Yorkshire public library during his family’s vacations there.


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I love that book. Read it when I was 18.
 
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drvenner said:
He used to do high school football also. Hope he is the heir apparent if Kesling ever retires.
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I sure hope we're not waiting for Kesling to retire. Everything else about UT athletics has been upgraded with DW, no reason that shouldn't continue to the voice of the Vols. Wilkerson, Keith, lots of amazing possibilities we've never heard out there are a lot better than Kesling.
 
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jave36 said:
I sure hope we're not waiting for Kesling to retire. Everything else about UT athletics has been upgraded with DW, no reason that shouldn't continue to the voice of the Vols. Wilkerson, Keith, lots of amazing possibilities we've never heard out there are a lot better than Kesling.
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Firing a guy who's been around as long as he has is bound to upset some people in and around the program. I can't imagine they feel like the juice is worth the squeeze there. I love Mike Keith. But he does a podcast on the Tennessee Titans YT channel. And it does like a couple of thousand views.

Can't see Danny White saying "You know what could use a massive overhaul with our TV deal bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars? Our radio network".

All of that to say, they are 100% waiting for Kesling to retire IMO.
 
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