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During one of Drood’s visits to Cloisterham, a young English couple arrives there from Ceylon, where they had been orphaned. The young woman, Helena Landless, who is Rosa Bud’s age, enters the ...
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(contains spoilers) The story is set in the Cathedral town of Cloisterham. Edwin Drood and Rosa Bud, both orphaned, had been promised to each other in marriage by their parents. Their attachment, made in early childhood, has cooled as they are reaching adulthood. Edwin's uncle and guardian, John Jasper, choirmaster and opium addict, is Rosa's music...
Possible solutions to The Mystery of Edwin Drood began to appear almost as soon as Dickens' death was announced. Despite Dickens' friend and biographer, John Forster, reporting that the author had told him early on that he had an idea for a new book where a nephew would be murdered by his uncle, many of the initial solutionist's theories centered o...
Charles Dickens has John Jasper frequenting an opium den run by a haggard woman, known as the Princess Puffer, who claims that she has the true secret of mixing the opium, as opposed to Jack Chinaman, a competitor on "t'other side of the court." The Puffer Princess was based on Lascar Sal, a well-known opium den operator in London's East End. Sal i...
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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
- 1870
- Chapman & Hall, London
The D Case, Or, The Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood. Translated by Gregory Dowling. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1993. A tour de force, in which the world’s most famous ...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's final novel was left unfinished before his death in 1871. Edwin Drood’s uncle, John Jasper, a choirmaster, is in love with his pupil and Drood’s fiancee Rosa Bud. She has also caught the eye of high-spirited and ill-tempered Neville Landless (who came from Ceylon with his twin sister Helena).
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 mystery story.
The victims—Edwin Drood, Rosa Bud, and the falsely accused Neville Landless—are all orphans. Their protectors are Mr. Grewgious, Rosa’s guardian, and the Canon Crisparkle, Neville’s ...
