Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best. Drood deals with the last five years of Charles Dickens life as told by his one-time friend and collaborator, Wilkie Collins, the author of Moonstone. 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. 775 pages 26.99) In 2007's 'The Terror,' his re-creation of the doomed Franklin arctic expedition, Dan Simmons, author of 'Hyperion,' 'Carrion. or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. It is narrated from the point of view of the English novelist Wilkie Collins, who was good friends with the other main character, Charles Dickens. Drood By Dan Simmons (Little, Brown and Co.
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. /rebates/2f97803160070232fDrood-Novel-Simmons-Dan-03160070212fplp&. 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.
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