Drood.
Drood.
By
:
Simmons, Dan.
Publication Date
:
2009
Genre
:
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Summary
:
On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in a trestle. All of the first-class carriages except the one carrying Dickens are smashed to bits in the valley below. When Dickens descends into that valley to confront the dead and dying, his life will be changed forever. And at the core of that ensuing five-year nightmare is… Drood… the name that Dickens whispers to his friend Wilkie Collins. A laudanum addict and lesser novelist, Collins flouts Victorian sensibilities by living with one mistress while having a child with another, but he may be the only man on Earth with whom Dickens can share the secret of
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780316007023
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