![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine Narrative passages in the complicated plot benefit from Prebble's natural speech patterns-clear, very British, and so suited to the text as to sound as if he wrote them himself. Collins's increasingly frequent bouts of paranoia sound convincingly terror-filled, without seeming "performed." And Dickens's self-important growls of pretension lead the listener to dislike him as much as Collins does. Title: Drood Author: Dan Simmons Genre: Literature, Fiction, Mystery Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Group) Publication Date: February 2009 Hardcover: 784 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel, although draws from the works and lives of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. He effortlessly shifts among the story's many characters, imbuing each not only with a voice and dialect, but also with a distinct personality. Simon Prebble's impeccable speech is the perfect match for this sinister Dickensian tale. Through an opium haze, Collins endeavors to find him, even as his hatred for his friend grows. Wilkie Collins, friend and sometime collaborator of Charles Dickens, listens with horror to Dickens's account of meeting a purported master of the black arts. ![]()
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