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Country United States Publication date February 1, 2009 Pages 777 pp (first edition) | 3.5/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1 February 2009 OCLC 225870345 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Little, Brown and Company (US), Quercus (United Kingdom) Genres Thriller, Historical drama Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction Similar Dan Simmons books, London books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Drood is a novel written by Dan Simmons. The book was initially published on February 1, 2009 by Little, Brown and Company.
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Overview
It is a fictionalized account of the last five years of Charles Dickens' life told from the viewpoint of Dickens' friend and fellow author, Wilkie Collins. The title comes from Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The novel's complex plot mixes fiction with biographical facts from the lives of Dickens, Collins, and other literary and historical figures of the Victorian era, complicated even further by the narrator's constant use of opium and opium derivatives such as laudanum, rendering him an unreliable narrator.
Movie
Guillermo del Toro is scheduled to direct a film adaptation of Drood for Universal Pictures.