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- Publisher: Little Brown and Company
- Number of Pages: 784
- ISBN: 0316007021
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112091477
- Release Date: February 9, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #32497 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #3315 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #106 in Romance - Suspense (See Top 100 Romance - Suspense Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Drood" by Dan Simmons to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Drood"Browse more products related to "Dan Simmons"Review"[Simmons] cleverly braids together fact and fiction -- biographical bits of Dickens' life and that of Wilkie Collins, details of Victorian London, elements of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD plus 'murder, death, corpses, crypts, mesmerism, opium, ghosts' and phantasmagoria by the fistful." "[I]t is...an engrossing mystery tale, and it offers a compelling portrait of two famous novelists and their evolving friendship, not to mention a portrait of 19th-century England's underworld and literary scene." "Simmons blends the facts of the Dickens and Collins biographies with graphic details about life in Victorian London. The result is a spellbinding tale, bold and sly and so steeped in the filigree of this era that it seems to have been written just after a seance during which both authors were present." "Bestseller Simmons...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." "Simmons also offers a stunning re-creation of Dickens' London and its characters that's almost as good as, well . . . Dickens. A top-notch, genre-bending tour de force, this is where history and horror meet." "Simmons is a master at fashioning competing worldviews, and emergent ones too. Many species of reality materialize in this almost-800-page story..." Publisher's noteA tale inspired by the mysterious final years of Charles Dickens finds the fifty-three-year-old literary master irrevocably changed when a train journey with his mistress ends in violence, an event that prompts the writer's increasing obsession with the London underworld as witnessed by his Salieri-like rival, Wilkie Collins. AnnotationBased on the historical details of Charles Dickens' life, "Drood" explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to his final, unfinished work: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." This gripping Victorian thriller depicts the final days of Charles Dickens, and the extraordinary events which haunt the great writer's unfinished final novel, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Wilkie Collins, Dickens's friend, rival, and collaborator, narrates this compelling saga, which begins when Dickens and his mistress survive a train wreck in 1865. In the aftermath of the disaster, Dickens encounters a bizarre practitioner of the black arts called Drood, who was protected from the crash because he was traveling in a coffin. Dickens pursues Drood into London's sprawling, decrepit underworld, where he develops a swelling obsession with corpses, crypts, and necromancy. Collins inevitably begins to question whether Drood really exists, or whether Dickens himself is responsible for the mysticism and murder they continually uncover. But Collins's telling of the tale is tainted by his looming jealousy of Dickens, and his considerable opium habit, so that the truth behind this twisted enigma is as elusive as the mysterious Mr. Drood himself. If You Enjoy "Drood (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Drood (Hardcover)" by Dan Simmons (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Romance - Suspense BestsellersFiction & Literature Bestselling BooksExplore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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