The Mystery of Edwin Drood -Charles Dickens - Drood -Dan Simmons

Written by Drood -Dan Simmons
Read by David Timson, John Lee
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Unabridged

The Mystery of Edwin Drood: David Timson 10:08:05

Through a mist of decay and opium, Dickens weaves a tale of murder and mystery in this, his last novel. Set in the fictional cathedral town of Cloisterham, John Jasper, the choir master, takes an obsessive interest in his nephew Edwin Drood and his fiancée Rosa Bud.

But when young Edwin disappears on Christmas Eve, has Jasper killed him? Alas, we’ll never know as Dickens died before completing the novel. It is an intriguing, enigmatic and also richly comic story, showing that Dickens was at the peak of his powers to the very end.

Drood: John Lee 29:50:59

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, fifty-three-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?

Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens’s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins [Dickens’s friend, frequent collaborator, and secret rival], Drood explores the still unsolved mysteries of the famous author’s last years.

Despite its sinister atmosphere, and some really grisly bits, this book is a love song to Dickens, with references galore to many of his better, and lesser, known works. This clever blend of fact and fiction should delight fans of Victorian England.

Narrated By: David Timson, John Lee
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