The Last Dickens
by Matthew Pearl
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 141041602X
- ISBN 13
- 9781410416025
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Wamuran, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.
Matthew Pearl's enthralling novel reopens one of literary history's greatest mysteries...
Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens' untimely death reaches Fields & Osgood, his struggling American publisher, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Dickens' unfinished novel. When Daniel's body is discovered by the docks and the manuscript is nowhere to be found, Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest to unearth the novel that will save his venerable business and reveal Daniel's killer.
Synopsis
Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow , and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales . Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Seller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Last Dickens
- Author
- Matthew Pearl
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 141041602X
- ISBN 13
- 9781410416025
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press
- Place of Publication
- Maine
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- matthew pearl, last dickens, historical, mystery novel, charles, james osgood, daniel sand, manuscript, quest, killer. large print,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Novel; Historical;
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