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((Short description|Novel by Dan Simmons))
((about|the 2009 novel|the musical|Drood))
((Refimprove|date=March 2009))
((Infobox book
| name          = Drood
| image         = Drood bookcover.jpg
| caption = Hardcover first edition
| author        = [[Dan Simmons]]
| cover_artist  =
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        =
| genre         = [[Psychological Thriller]], [[Historical fiction]]
| publisher     = [[Little, Brown and Company]] (US), Quercus (United Kingdom)
| pub_date      = February 1, 2009
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardback]])
| pages         = 777 pp ''(first edition)''
| isbn          = 978-0-316-00702-3
| dewey         = 813/.54 22
| congress      = PS3569.I47292 D76 2009
| oclc          = 225870345
| preceded_by   =
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'''''Drood''''' is a novel written by [[Dan Simmons]]. The book was initially published on February 1, 2009 by [[Little, Brown and Company]]. It is a fictionalized account of the last five years of [[Charles Dickens]]' life.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3222979-drood|publisher=[[goodreads.com]]|title=Drood by Dan Simmons|accessdate=2014-09-12))</ref>

==Overview==
The book is a fictionalized account of the last five years of [[Charles Dickens]]' life told from the viewpoint of Dickens' friend and fellow author, [[Wilkie Collins]]. The title comes from Dickens' unfinished novel, ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]''. The novel's complex plot mixes fiction with biographical facts from the lives of Dickens, Collins, and other literary and historical figures of the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] era, complicated even further by the narrator's constant use of [[opium]] and opium derivatives such as [[laudanum]], rendering him an [[unreliable narrator]].

==Film==
In 2008, [[Guillermo del Toro]] was attached to direct a film adaptation of ''Drood'' for [[Universal Studios|Universal Pictures]],<ref>((cite web|url=https://variety.com/2008/film/features/guillermo-del-toro-booked-thru-2017-1117991560/|title=Guillermo Del Toro booked thru 2017|last=Fleming Jr|first=Michael|date=2008-09-03|website=variety.com|publisher=Variety Media|access-date=2017-12-25|quote=))</ref> but the project has not occurred.

==References==
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==External links==
* ((OL work))

((Dan Simmons))

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[[Category:Works about Charles Dickens]]
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