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What makes a person admirable when pride stands between love and the courage to act?
In The Man, Bram Stoker turns to romance among England’s upper classes. Two people care for each other, but affection alone cannot bring them together. Their own pride, the expectations placed upon them, and the world they inhabit hold them apart. As their bond grows, the pressure on it grows too.
This love story asks what character means when feeling and convention pull in different directions. Stoker explores duty and the roles society gives men and women. Even the title poses a challenge: does being a man rest on rank, strength, or manners—or on how a person chooses to behave?
What you’ll discover
- Love under pressure Follow a bond that has time to deepen before pride and expectation test it.
- Character beyond rank Consider whether social standing matters more than conduct when a person’s worth is at stake.
- The weight of duty Explore the demands placed on men and women when private feelings meet public expectations.
- Feeling without restraint Enter a romance of grand speeches and a narrator unafraid to guide your feelings.
- Another side of Stoker Meet the author of Dracula through an earnest story of love, pride, and courage.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this if you like love stories with strong heroines, English country houses, sea rescues and big questions about equality, pride and what it means to be fair.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A girl wants to be God
- A father raises his daughter as a son
- Harold joins the household and keeps her safe
- Stephen studies the world and forms a theory
- Her father dies and leaves a trust
- Stephen proposes on the hill
- Harold hears the secret and makes an offer
- Leonard schemes and Aunt Laetitia fights back
- What the story is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- Stephen NormanA proud, red-haired heiress raised as her father's son, she wants power and fairness and tests her own bold ideas.
- Harold An WolfA strong, loyal young man who has loved Stephen since childhood and holds back his feelings out of duty.
- Leonard EverardA handsome, careless young gentleman deep in debt, who is more interested in Stephen's fortune than in her.
- Miss Laetitia RowlyStephen's great aunt, a sharp and loving guardian who has hidden her own old sorrow.
- Squire Stephen NormanStephen's father, a kind landowner who wanted a son and decides to raise his daughter as one.
- Pearl StonehouseA small American girl who adores Harold and calls him The Man.
- Andrew StonehouseA wealthy, honest American ironmaster who wants to repay Harold for a great kindness.
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The Man
by Bram Stoker · 1905
A girl in a scarlet riding habit dreams of being God, then asks a man to marry her, with painful results.
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A girl in a scarlet riding habit says she would rather be God than an angel. Years later she tries to put her boldest idea to the test, and it nearly costs her the man who loves her.
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A girl wants to be God
The story opens in a village churchyard on a June afternoon. Stephen Norman, not yet fourteen, sits on a tombstone in a red hunting habit beside Harold An Wolf, her friend and mentor, who is five years older. They overhear two village girls. One would rather be an angel than God. The other wants to be God and give the orders.
Stephen sides with the second girl at once. Harold doubts that such power would make her happy, and he says the hardest part of ruling is being fair. Stephen bristles when he claims that women find justice difficult. She argues hotly, and he answers with examples that she half accepts.
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What is The Man by Bram Stoker about?
It follows Stephen Norman, a proud heiress raised as a son, and Harold An Wolf, her loyal friend. Their love is tested by her bold idea of equality, by a worthless suitor and by a long separation.
Who is The Man in the story?
The Man is the name little Pearl Stonehouse gives to Harold An Wolf, a big, kind stranger who befriends her on a sea voyage and rescues her when she falls overboard.
Is The Man a horror story like Dracula?
No. It is a romance with sea adventure, country-house scenes and a debate about women's place. It has storms and drama but no vampires.
The author
Bram Stoker
1847–1912 · Irish Gothic novelist
Bram Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, born in Dublin in 1847. He moved to London in 1878 and worked as manager of the Lyceum Theatre. He wrote Dracula (1897), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). He died in London in 1912.
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