Drood

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作者：Dan Simmons　著

出版社：Hachette

ISBN：9780316073530

出版时间：2010-02-01

分类：图书>英文原版书>小说 Fiction

开本：32开

纸张：胶版纸

包装：平装

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【作者简介】

Dan Simmons is the award-winning author of several novels,

including the New York Times bestsellers Olympos

and The Terror. He lives in Colorado.

【内容简介】

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.