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A review by lenny9987
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
4.0
It was with some hesitation that I took up The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl but after reading Hard Times last week, I was finally ready. Happily, The Last Dickens proved to be a return to the intrigue of a masterfully crafted plot that Pearl demonstrated first in The Dante Club.
It’s 1870 and Charles Dickens is dead but what’s worse, his latest novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood remains unfinished. For the Boston based publishing house of Fields, Osgood, & Co. this news spreads sorrow tinged with desperation when it throws the financial promise of their position as Dickens’ exclusive publisher in America into doubt. Compounding this sorrow is the tragedy of an accident involving one of their promising young clerks, Daniel Sand. In an effort to make their edition of The Mystery of Edwin Drood the monetary success they need, one of the partners, James Osgood, embarks on a mission to find whatever remains there may be of Dickens’ plans for the novel’s hotly disputed ending for their exclusive edition.
For the complete review, visit my blog:
http://nightmaresdaydreamsandimaginedconversations.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/book-review-the-last-dickens-by-matthew-pearl/
It’s 1870 and Charles Dickens is dead but what’s worse, his latest novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood remains unfinished. For the Boston based publishing house of Fields, Osgood, & Co. this news spreads sorrow tinged with desperation when it throws the financial promise of their position as Dickens’ exclusive publisher in America into doubt. Compounding this sorrow is the tragedy of an accident involving one of their promising young clerks, Daniel Sand. In an effort to make their edition of The Mystery of Edwin Drood the monetary success they need, one of the partners, James Osgood, embarks on a mission to find whatever remains there may be of Dickens’ plans for the novel’s hotly disputed ending for their exclusive edition.
For the complete review, visit my blog:
http://nightmaresdaydreamsandimaginedconversations.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/book-review-the-last-dickens-by-matthew-pearl/