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This article is about the 2009 novel. For the musical, see Drood.
Drood Author(s) Dan Simmons Country United States Language English Genre(s) Thriller, Historical fiction Publisher Little, Brown and Company (US), Quercus (United Kingdom) Publication date February 2009 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 777 pp (first edition) ISBN 9780316007023 OCLC Number 225870345 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 22 LC Classification PS3569.I47292 D76 2009 Drood is a 2009 novel written by Dan Simmons. It is a fictionalized account of the last five years of Charles Dickens' life told from the view point of Dickens' friend and fellow author Wilkie Collins. The title comes from Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The novel mixes factual biography from the lives of Dickens, Collins, and other literary and historical figures of the Victorian era with a complex plot, complicated even further by an unreliable narrator.
Guillermo del Toro is scheduled to direct a film adaptation of Drood for Universal Pictures.[1]
References
- ^ Wigler, Josh. "Guillermo Del Toro Leaves 'The Hobbit,' So What's Next For The Director?". MTV Movies Blog. http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/06/01/guillermo-del-toro-leaves-the-hobbit-so-whats-next-for-the-director/. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
External links
- Drood on Open Library at the Internet Archive
The works of Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos Ilium/Olympos Joe Kurtz Hardcase • Hard Freeze • Hard as NailsOther novels
(In chronological order)Song of Kali • Carrion Comfort • Phases of Gravity • Entropy's Bed at Midnight • Summer of Night • Children of the Night • The Hollow Man • Fires of Eden • The Crook Factory • Darwin's Blade • A Winter Haunting • The Terror • Muse of Fire • Drood • Black Hills • FlashbackShort story collections Prayers to Broken Stones • Summer Sketches • Lovedeath • Worlds Enough & TimeCategories:- 2009 novels
- Works inspired by Charles Dickens
- Novels by Dan Simmons
- 21st-century American novels
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