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Plot summary (with spoilers): Drood by Dan Simmons is a work of historical fiction that gives readers a look at what might have happened during the last few years of Charles Dickens’s life. Told from the point of view of fellow novelist and friend Wilkie Collins, the narrative opens in June of 1865, when Dickens [...]

Plot summary (with spoilers): The Last Dickens is a work of historical fiction that seeks to recreate what might have happened in the immediate aftermath of Dickens’s death as publishers in America scrambled to get their hands on whatever was written of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the celebrated author’s final novel. Drood was to [...]