(Complete) Please update book description

[Lauren]

The book description for the most popular edition of Dracula (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...) currently focuses on the additional material included in that specific edition. Please change this to instead reflect the plot.

I would suggest the following description taken from Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Dracula-Bram-S...) - please note italics (delete extra space to enable formatting) and, when replacing, do not remove links to alternate cover editions:

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

In < i>Dracula< /i>, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

For comparison, this is the existing description, which is great for marketing but useless as a book burb:

A rich selection of background and source materials is provided in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.

Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.

Per the Goodreads Librarian Manual,

The description field is for entering a summary of the work. The best description to enter is one found on the back cover or on the dust jacket of the book. If the book does not have a summary listed anywhere on the cover or pages, you can copy a description from a different edition or an outside source, such as the publisher's website or Wikipedia. You may also write your own description; however, please avoid editing descriptions that are already in place and summarize the work sufficiently.

The description can be a couple of sentences or paragraphs describing the content of the book. It should be a generic summary and should NOT include reviews or personal feelings […]

The manual doesn't require the description match the Amazon description of that edition, but does emphasize that the book description should be a summary of the book and should describe the content. The current description does not do so—it focuses on supplemental material rather than the primary text.

Just like a book description with spoilers would be swapped out for one without, this description should be changed. At the very least, a summary like I listed above should be added to the existing description.

[L J]

Please update your existing discussion on this topic
https://www.goodreads.com/comment/sho...
instead of adding another discussion about same topic.

[Lauren]

L J wrote: "Please update your existing discussion on this topic
https://www.goodreads.com/comment/sho...
instead of adding another discussion about same topic."

Sorry, I deleted that one to avoid confusion.

As discussed, this is allowable under the Goodreads manual, and I laid out my reasons why it's also preferable under Goodreads policy.

[Liralen]

I've added the more plot-focused description but see no reason to removed the edition-specific info, as it might be useful to some readers.

[Lauren]

Liralen wrote: "I've added the more plot-focused description but see no reason to removed the edition-specific info, as it might be useful to some readers."

Thank you! That makes sense to me.