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Nel giugno del 1865, durante un viaggio in compagnia della sua amante, Charles Dickens rimane coinvolto in un incidente ferroviario, in seguito al quale incontra un sinistro personaggio di nome Drood che cambierà per sempre la sua vita. Il racconto degli avvenimenti che seguirono è affidato al suo migliore amico ed eterno rivale, Wilkie Collins, autore di libri come "La donna in bianco" e "La pietra di luna", che viene coinvolto in una serie di indagini nell'underworld di Londra, attraverso sotterranei oscuri e misteriosi, colonie umane di derelitti, fumerie d'oppio clandestine, pratiche di mesmerismo e sette segrete. Quando Drood sembra avvicinarsi alle loro ricerche, egli viene messo da parte da Dickens, il quale comincia a mostrare segnali inquietanti di cambiamento. Come se non bastasse, anche Collins inizia ad avere visioni inspiegabili, allucinazioni, un senso costante di minaccia. Provato fisicamente e mentalmente ma avvinto da questo gioco mortale, Collins si dibatte tra la paura della follia e il dubbio che tutto faccia parte di un diabolico piano della creatura che si fa chiamare Drood. Centrato sulle figure di due degli scrittori inglesi più influenti della modernità, è un romanzo storico-letterario sul mistero dell'ultimo omonimo romanzo rimasto incompiuto di Dickens, un inquietante racconto sovrannaturale e un'indagine psicologica sui recessi più oscuri della mente umana. Un'opera ambiziosa nella produzione narrativa di uno dei maestri contemporanei del romanzo americano.
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- Data di uscita: 16-06-2011
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Hello, Dear Readers. Wilkie Collins here. In case you’re unfamiliar with me, I was a best selling English novelist during the mid-1800s, and a friend and frequent collaborator with Charles Dickens. I’m also the narrator of this new novel Drood despite the fact that this Dan Simmons fellow is trying Leggi tutto
If ever there was a book that's impossible to review (at least without major spoilers) it's this one. So instead of reviewing it, let me say a few things to anyone who might be thinking of reading it. First off, don't approach this like a horror novel. It's not in the sense that Carrion Comfort, Summ Leggi tutto
By some quirk of fate, or just the same people growing up with the same influences, there were three books concerning the last years of Charles Dickens ' life published in 2009, Drood was Dan Simmons' contribution. If you've read Simmons' peerless The Terror , you know just how good he is at mixing hi Leggi tutto
"This true story will be about Charles Dickens's final five years and about his growing obsession during that time with a man - if man he was - named Drood, as well as with murder, death, corpses, crypts, mesmerism, opium, ghosts,band the streets and alleys of that black-biled lower bowel of Lond
Two years ago I read Dan Simmons's The Terror in pretty much one go, it was that good and gripping. It expertly combined several areas in which I'm interested and knowledgeable - Victorian Arctic exploration, the Franklin expedition, and supernatural fiction - and I was thrilled when I found out tha Leggi tutto
I would have imagined that a seasoned novelist of big books steeped in historical context might have avoided the beginner's error of forgoing actual narrative for HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF EXPOSITION, but I would have been wrong. Apparently, Mr. Simmons could not forgo even one of the trifling matters of Leggi tutto
GAH. This book is almost 800 pages long. I knew after the first fifty, definitely after the first hundred, that I wasn’t enjoying it, but I kept reading because 1) I’m a stubborn bitch, 2) Dan Simmons has written good books in the past, and 3) I just felt like it had to get better, right? RIGHT? Not s Leggi tutto
This is one hell of an excellent book! I had low expectations going into it and they were blown so far out of the water that they ended up in space. That’s how good this book is. It is a big monster of a book but trust me, every single page is worth it! Simmons tells such a captivating story here, I Leggi tutto
I'm giving this a 4.5 stars instead of a 5 for only one reason: I rather hate all the characters in this book and they were all god-awful annoying. This is NOT to say that they weren't also amazingly complicated, well-written, fascinating, infuriating, and beautifully drawn, because they were. Amazin Leggi tutto
It's been some years since I read this book, but it's still one of those that I remember quite well because I liked the story so much. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens was never finished and this book tells about how Charles Dickens become obsessed with the mysterious being called Drood Leggi tutto
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