New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009. First U.S. edition. First printing with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Black cloth over red paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket shows a faint coffee cup outline stain on the verso of the front panel; otherwise just light handling wear. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 775 pages. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($26.99). A sprawling historical thriller narrated by Wilkie Collins, "Drood" reimagines the final years of Charles Dickens s life and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his unfinished novel "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Simmons, known for blending literary homage with gothic suspense, constructs a hallucinatory descent into Victorian paranoia and rivalry.

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Title: Drood (First Edition)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (New York)
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0316007021
ISBN 13: 9780316007023
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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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.

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Dan Simmons is the award-winning author of several novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Olympos and The Terror. He lives in Colorado.

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