{"product_id":"9781462083008","title":"Terror To The End: The Last Day in the Life of Charles Dickens in His Own Words (More or Less)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerror to the End \u003c\/i\u003eis an imaginative re-creation of the last day in Charles Dickens’ astonishing life. For the most part, it employs the great writer’s own words, taken from his letters and readings. We meet him as he takes a break from his work on \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Edwin Drood\u003c\/i\u003e, which would remain only half-finished. Dickens was writing one of its most beautiful sections on this, his last working day.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerror to the End\u003c\/i\u003e is dramatically punctuated by spine-tingling sections of “Sikes and Nancy” (sometimes called “The Murder of Nancy”), from Oliver Twist. The celebrated writer would die the next day, on the fifth anniversary of the catastrophic Staplehurst Railway Accident, which he and his alleged mistress survived, but which resulted in a permanent trauma that, try as he might, he could never fully escape.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerror to the End\u003c\/i\u003e spirits the listener back in time to 8 June, 1870, on a lovely day in rural England, at a stately old Georgian mansion on the Gravesend Road, where a not-so-very old man spends a little time alone, remembering, reflecting, and regretting the incomprehensible life he had lived. Charles Dickens was fifty-eight when he died.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141136892144,"sku":"9781462083008","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462083008_p0.jpg?v=1763676287","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462083008","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}