Drood

A Novel

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Dan Simmons: Drood (Hardcover, 2009, Little, Brown and Company)

Hardcover, 784 pages

English language

Published Sept. 8, 2009 by Little, Brown and Company.

ISBN:
978-0-316-00702-3
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OCLC Number:
225870345

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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. 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, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in [The Terror][1], Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. 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 …

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Subjects

  • Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Fiction
  • London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction