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The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by the English author Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who lusts after his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Edwin Drood's fiancée, has also ...
- Fildes, Luke, Sir, Charles Dickens
- Serialized and book form 1870
- 1870
- Chapman & Hall, London
Jan 4, 2012 · The Mystery of Edwin Drood: A Dickens of a whodunnit. Charles Dickens died before he could finish his last novel. So crime-writer Gwyneth Hughes set out to complete it for a new...
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The book is a fictionalized account of the last five years of Charles Dickens ' life told from the viewpoint of Dickens' friend and fellow author, Wilkie Collins. The title comes from Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The novel's complex plot mixes fiction with biographical facts from the lives of Dickens, Collins, and ...
- Dan Simmons
- 777 pp (first edition)
- 2009
- February 1, 2009
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, published posthumously in 1870. Only 6 of the 12 projected parts had been completed by the time of Dickens’s death. Although Dickens had included touches of the gothic and horrific in his earlier works, Edwin Drood was his only true.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 10, 2012 · 10 January 2012. There have been many previous attempts to finish the novel. Can The Mystery of Edwin Drood ever be truly solved? Only its author, Charles Dickens, knew how the story was meant to...
Jan 1, 2009 · 16,576ratings2,264reviews. Kindle $7.99. Drood… is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his life.On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in a trestle.
Sep 25, 2021 · Last Updated on September 25, 2021. The Mystery of Edwin Drood was the fifteenth novel of Charles Dickens. Dickens was only halfway finished with the book when he died. Table of Contents. The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Dickens’s Life At The Time. Public Readings. Possible Endings for The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Themes of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
