Drood

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• Dickens — The Dark Years

  Drood by Dan Simmons Reviewed by Doug Brown Powells.com On June 9, 1865, Charles Dickens, along with his mistress and her mother, survived a famous railway disaster at Staplehurst, England. He was deeply affected by the experience, even mentioning th ... (read full critics)

  powells published on Sat, 20 Aug 2011

• DROOD

  Drood. Just say it. Let the name roll over your tongue. Feels good, right? Substantial yet ethereal? Okay, whatever. But substantial and ethereal describe this novel to a tee, Dan Simmons’s follow-up to 2007’s similarly substantial and ethereal histo ... (read full critics)

  shotsmag published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

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  Simmons doesn't cease to amaze me!

  A very well researched mystery about the last 5 years of Dickens live, told so brilliantly by his former friend and later rival Wilkie Collins, that almost makes you believe it as true.

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  Listened to the audiobook version read by John Lee who becomes Wilkie Collins and brings Dan Simmons version of Collins' Dickensian London to life. The ultimate 'unreliable author'.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 784 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0316007021
• ISBN-13: 9780316007023
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Pub date: Feb 09, 2009
• Also available as: Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken

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