![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Drood" is narrated by Charles Dickens' friend, collaborator and rival, Wilkie Collins, author of the proto-detective novels "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White." In addressing readers who won't be born until centuries after his death, Collins promises to reveal all he knows about the world's most famous novelist: Now continues his exploration of the darker side of Victorian England with "Drood," a massive historical thriller that tries to provide answers to one of literature's enduring curiosities. In 2007's "The Terror," his re-creation of the doomed Franklin arctic expedition, Dan Simmons, author of "Hyperion," "Carrion Comfort" and "Ilium," took a big step away from the epic science fiction with which he had made his name. ![]()
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