Description
When Charles Dickens dies unexpectedly, the struggling Boston publishing firm Fields, Osgood & Co. faces a desperate challenge: complete and publish his unfinished final novel before financial ruin closes in. Young clerk Daniel Sand finds himself drawn into a dangerous investigation involving Dickens’s last journey to America, literary ambition, and a web of secrets surrounding the author’s final manuscript. Blending historical fact with a richly imagined mystery, the novel explores the pressures of publishing, the power of literary celebrity, and the enduring cultural legacy of one of the nineteenth century’s greatest writers.
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ebook
Random House Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2009
401 pages
ISBN: 9781588368584
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Details
First Published
2009
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl.