Before You Begin

Before you begin.

At Normanstand, Stephen Norman and Harold An Wolf grow up in one another’s orbit, surrounded by family expectations that point them toward different futures. Their friendship and independence carry the story from the English countryside to university towns, across the Atlantic, and back to the English coast. As you read, watch how names, social roles, and changing homes shape the distance between the characters.

Bram Stoker’s The Man was published in 1905. This edition follows the complete text transcribed from the 1897 Robert Hayes edition, with its opening “Fore-Glimpse” and all thirty-seven numbered chapters. The companion gallery is designed to follow that reading with character portraits, places, relationships, and chapter-by-chapter scenes and recaps.