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The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens

The Mystery of Edwin Drood By Charles Dickens

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens


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Summary

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood Summary

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

'Dickens's finest work in the genre of the detective story was his last' The Times

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears. Beyond this there are further intrigues: the dark opium underworld of the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of choir-master Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his appearance. Dickens died before completing Edwin Drood, leaving generations of readers to try and solve its tantalizing mystery.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Paroissien

About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. David Paroissien is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts. He is editor of the Dickens Quarterly and author of a number of books on Dickens.

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GOR001211799
9780140439267
0140439269
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2002-03-28
432
N/A
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