Drood
Autor Dan Simmonsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2010
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 inThe 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316007030
ISBN-10: 031600703X
Pagini: 800
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 031600703X
Pagini: 800
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Dan
Simmons
is
the
award-winning
author
of
several
novels,
including
theNew
York
TimesbestsellersOlymposandThe
Terror.
He
lives
in
Colorado.
Recenzii
"A
dazzling
journey
through
a
crooked,
gaslit
labyrinth
and
a
tenebrous
portraiture
of
the
tortured
minotaurs
that
dwell
within.
Genius
is
the
true
mystery,
and
at
its
edge--the
abyss."—Guillermo
del
Toro,
writer
and
director
of
The
Devil's
Backbone
and
Pan's
Labyrinth
" 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 séance during which both Dickens and Wilkie Collins were present."—Julia Keller,Chicago Tribune
"Simmons has captured to a tee the high style of late Victorian melodrama: the story line is consistently engrossing and utterly unpredictable. This rip-roaring adventure is a true page-turner."—Library Journal
" 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 séance during which both Dickens and Wilkie Collins were present."—Julia Keller,Chicago Tribune
"Simmons has captured to a tee the high style of late Victorian melodrama: the story line is consistently engrossing and utterly unpredictable. This rip-roaring adventure is a true page-turner."—Library Journal