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Drood | Simmons, Dan | Signed First Edition Book


 
DROOD by Dan Simmons
AUTHOR AUTOGRAPHED HARDCOVER BOOK


First edition, first printing, fine in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author. This is a collectible book free from material defects. Jacket covering services are available for a small fee. February 2009 NY: Little, Brown & Co ISBN 9780316007023
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DROOD by Dan Simmons - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK

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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, 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 of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, Drood is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.

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4 of 5 INTERESTING READ April 8, 2010
Reviewer: Carrie L. from Idaho Falls, ID United States  
THE STORY IS TOLD BY WILKIE COLLINS, DICKENS' FRIEND. IT WAS AS MUCH WILKIE'S STORY AS DICKEN'S STORY. BASED AROUND DICKENS' LAST UNFINISHED NOVEL AND HIS LAST FIVE YEARS OF HIS LIFE. UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF LAUDANUM AND OPIUM HE LIVES THROUGH SOME VERY INTERESTING NIGHTMARES HE BELIEVES TO BE REAL WITH DICKENS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL, WHICH IS EXPLAINED IN THE END. BUT THE DAMAGE TO THEIR FRIENDSHIP IS IRREVERSABLE. THE NIGHTMARE IS DROOD!!

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