Author

Publication

2009 - MacAdam/Cage Pub., San Francisco, California

Language

English

Word Count

138,500 words, Guess

Page Count

554 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC813/.6
  • LCCPS3604.U56 U54 2009

Description

Dingley Dell is a self-contained valley peopled by orphans, whose guardians abandoned them with only an encyclopedia and the works of Charles Dickens. From these beginnings comes a Victorian society whose limited trade with outsiders raises more question than it answers. Those who leave rarely return or are considered mad. The beginning drags a bit as the residents try to figure out what the reader already knows, but the tide turns and comes in fast once a runaway returns to the valley. Scribe-for-hire Trimmers and his friends, amateur sleuths disguised as a poetry society, discover that their strange world will come to a quick and bloody end unless they act.

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