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Drood

Drood( )
Author: Simmons, Dan
ISBN:978-0-316-00703-0
Publication Date:Feb 2010
Publisher:Little Brown & Company
Imprint:Back Bay Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.99
Book Description:

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,...
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Book Details
Pages:800
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
Fiction / Biographical
Fiction / City Life
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.6 x 8.2 x 2.3 Inches
Book Weight:1.74 Pounds
Author Biography
Simmons, Dan (Author)
Science fiction writer Dan Simmons was born in East Peoria, Illinois in 1948. He graduated from Wabash College in 1970 and received an M. A. from Washington University the following year.

Simmons was an elementary school teacher and worked in the education field for a decade, including working to develop a gifted education program.

His first successful short story was won a contest and was published in 1982. His first novel, Song of Kali, won a World Fantasy Award, and Simmons has also won a Theodore Sturgeon Award for short fiction, four Bram Stoker Awards, and eight Locus Awards. He is also the author of the Hyperion series, and Simmons and his work have been compared to Herbert's Dune and Asimov's Foundation series.

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