“This sprawling monster of a novel is Collins-like in its exotic extravagance, Dickensian in its sharply delineated characters, major and minor. Please note: This title is not eligible for any coupons, specials, or savings certificates. Lettered: 26 copies, handbound, signed by author, housed in a custom traycase Limited: 500 numbered copies, fully bound in cloth, signed by author Absorbing, moving, and constantly surprising, Drood shows us Dan Simmons at his inimitable - and mesmerizing - best. The result is a fever dream of a book that vividly recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of 19th century London, while illuminating the final years of a great writer’s life. The mysteries surrounding Drood form the heart of an epic narrative encompassing ancient religious practices, subterranean cities, hallucinatory visions, madness, murder, and the limitless power of the creative imagination. The story concerns an otherworldly figure who calls himself “Drood,” and who moves through the wreckage like a pale, unholy apparition. He tells it, with typical Dickensian brio, to his friend and occasional collaborator, Wilkie Collins, the narrator of this magisterial novel. Dickens emerges from the carnage physically, if not mentally, unscathed. Shortly afterward, the train derails near the village of Staplehurst, toppling into an abyss.
On June 9th, 1865, Charles Dickens, “the most popular novelist in England, perhaps the world,” boards a train bound from Folkstone to London, accompanied by his youthful mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan.
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