Dracula - Student Textbook for the Single Text (HL)

Dracula is Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel of an ancient foreign threat crossing into modern England, assembled from journals, letters and diaries with no single narrator. This Student Textbook takes Higher Level students through the whole novel and toward the Single Text question on Paper 2.

• An introduction to the author and the novel
• A walk through all twenty-seven chapters in order, in the novel’s three movements
• Full studies of the main characters (Dracula, Mina, Lucy, Van Helsing, the Crew of Light and Renfield)
• The key relationships and how they shift
• The central themes traced across the text
• A treatment of the novel as a made object (the documentary form, multiple narrators, structure, the Gothic, symbol and image)
• Guidance on building a personal response
• A full exam section with a complete sample answer, an explanation of what makes it a H1 answer, a practice-question bank and a master quotation bank

It is the student-facing companion to the Complete Teaching Pack. Where the Teaching Pack is what you run the class from, this is the book students read and revise from. A one-off teacher purchase, licensed for you to copy for your own students.

Higher Level; designed for use alongside the student’s own copy of the novel, it does not reproduce the full text. On the prescribed list (first listed in 2026); first examined in 2028.