![]() The locomotive in which fifty-three year old Charles Dickens and his young mistress, Ellen Ternan, were returning from France encountered an unexpected gap in the rails and six first-class coaches hurtled down to the chasm below. He describes a catastrophic train accident that took place on June 9, 1865. Collins begins his strange tale in dramatic fashion. He was a famous author in his own right as well as a longtime acquaintance of Charles Dickens with whom he collaborated on various literary projects. "This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them.And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation? Would we trade those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute?"ĭrood, by Dan Simmons, is narrated by Wilkie Collins. (Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky FEB 18, 2009) ( Jump down to see more reviews of this author's novels ) ![]()
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