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  1. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by the English author Charles Dickens, [1] [2] 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 ...

    • Fildes, Luke, Sir, Charles Dickens
    • Serialized and book form 1870
  2. Summary. Jack Jasper is the choirmaster of the cathedral at Cloisterham. Young as he is, he is also the guardian of his orphan nephew, Edwin Drood, who is only a few years Jasper’s junior. Edwin ...

  3. Overview. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel written by English novelist Charles Dickens. Dickens completed about half of the novel before he died in June 1870, and he had already begun publishing the novel in serial form. Because the novel revolves around the mysterious disappearance, and possible murder, of the titular character ...

  4. Chapter 9. Rosa Bud has lived at the Nuns' House since she was seven years old after the drowning death of her mother and subsequen... Read More. Chapter 10. Mr. Crisparkle and Mrs. Crisparkle are at home. They discuss the disagreement between Edwin Drood and Neville Landless. ... Read More. Chapter 11.

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    Summary
    Chapter 1
    An unnamed character is inside an opium ...
    Chapter 2
    The late-fall day is dreary. Mr. Dean, Mr.
    Chapter 3
    The Nuns' House rests amid the buildings ...
    Chapter 4
    Mr. Sapsea is a self-serving and arrogant ...
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  6. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is set in the town of Cloisterham, England. This small town houses a Cathedral and a boarding school for girls. Miss Twinkleton is in charge of the girls in the Nuns' House. Rosa Bud is a teenage girl who has lived at the Nuns' House since the death of her parents when she was five years old.

  7. 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.

  8. Sep 25, 2021 · During October of 1869, at Gad’s Hill Place, Dickens began work on The Mystery of Edwin Drood. On March 15, 1870 Dickens gave his final public reading. In April of 1870 publication of Drood began. On June 8, 1870 Dickens spent the day working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood . During dinner he collapsed.

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