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| A tale inspired by the mysterious final years of Charles Dickens finds the 53-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. Reprint. |
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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Dan Simmons |
| Fiction Subgenre: |
Action & Thrillers |
| Fiction Genre: |
Fiction |
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Professional Reviews
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Baltimore Sun: "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.", Booklist: "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.", Boston Globe: "Simmons is a master at fashioning competing worldviews, and emergent ones too. Many species of reality materialize in this almost-800-page story...", Miami Herald: "[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.", Publishers Weekly: "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.", Hughes, Robert J., Wall Street Journal: "[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." |
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Book Editions
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- Audio - Compact Disc
- Abridged
- February 08, 2010
- Hachette Audio
- 5.5"(h) x 5"(w) x 1.5"(d), 0.6 lbs.
- 9781600248344
, - Audio - Compact Disc
- Abridged
- February 09, 2009
- Hachette Audio
- 5.75"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1.5"(d), 0.6 lbs.
- 9781600244636
, - Hardcover
- Limited; Signed
- 784
- March 30, 2009
- Subterranean
- 9781596062351
, - Hardcover
- 777
- February 09, 2009
- Little Brown & Co
- 9.5"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 2"(d), 2.35 lbs.
- 9780316007023
, - Paperback
- Large Print
- 1269
- February 09, 2009
- Little Brown & Co
- 9"(h) x 6"(w) x 2.25"(d), 2.8 lbs.
- 9780316037587
, - Paperback
- Reprint
- 775
- February 08, 2010
- Back Bay Books
- 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1.5"(d), 1.5 lbs.
- 9780316007030
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