Drood: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (825 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1600244637 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 538 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.. On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world -- hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, th
. All rights reserved. Along with his real-life novelist friend Wilkie Collins, who narrates the tale, Dickens pursues the elusive Drood, an effort that leads the pair to a nightmarish world beneath London's streets. Collins begins to wonder whether the object of their quest, if indeed the man exists, is merely a cover for his colleague's own murderous inclinations. In the course of narrowly escaping death in an 1865 train wreck and trying to rescue fellow passengers, Dickens encounters a ghoulish figure named Drood, who had apparently been traveling in a coffin. 4-city author tour. (Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Bestseller Simmons (The Terror) brilliantly imagines a terrifying sequence of events as the inspiration for Dickens's last, uncompleted novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in this unsettling and complex thriller. Despite the book's length, readers
Thomas A. Turley said A fine meditation on evil--but much too long!. Sherlockian scholar David Marcum has noted that only a single generation separates the world of Charles Dickens from the world of Conan Doyle. That fact is evident in Dan Simmons’ literary horror novel Drood, for its characters (most prominently an Iago-like Wilkie Collins and his hero and nemesis, the more famous Charles Dickens) haunt the same dismal. Jack said And he spins a fantastic tale of pride. Dan Simmons sure has a talent for writing. This was the second book of his that I read and both were so well crafted that I came away highly impressed by his skills as an author both times. This book is more about Charles Dickens then it is about the title character, Drood. Mr. Simmons recreates the Victorian Era very realistically. Wilke Collins is the narr. "Good Solid Entertainment" according to Gene Stewart. Dickens died before finishing his final book, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, but what if Drood were more mysterious as a figure in Dickens's life? Narrated by Wilkie Collins, a close friend of Dickens and a fellow novelist, we learn much about literary envy, rivalry, and competition even as the events grow stranger, darker, and more horrific. Brooding and grote