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Title	:	The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Author	:	Charles Dickens
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	2002 by Penguin (first published 1870)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Mystery

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

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Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.

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. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his jealous uncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is the killer. And beyond this presumed crime there are further intrigues: the dark opium dens of the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Dickens died before completing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, leaving its tantalising mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.

This edition contains an introduction by David Paroissien, discussing the novel's ending, with a chronology, notes, original illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes, appendices on opium use in the nineteenth century, the 'Sapsea Fragment' and Dickens's plans for the story's conclusion.

Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions.

If you enjoyed The Mystery of Edwin Drood, you might like Dickens's Little Dorrit, also available in Penguin Classics.

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Original Title:	The Mystery of Edwin Drood
ISBN:	0140439269 (ISBN13: 9780140439267)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Edwin Drood, Edwin Drood, Rosa Bud, Dick Datchery, John Jasper, Neville Landless, Rev. Septimus Crisparkle, Dupin, Pater Brown, Marlowe, Helena Landless, Hiram Grewgious, Miss Twinkleton, Luke Honeythunder, Mr. Tartar, Thomas Sapsea, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Jules Maigret, Charles Dickens
Setting:	Rome(Italy) Rochester, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ for Αγγλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία (2009)

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With words filled with utmost wit and dark humor, Charles Dickens has created an atmospheric gothic tale that creeps into love and jealousy & hatred and envy.This is the first time I get into Dickens, and while I faced some minor issues with this book, I cannot wait to go back into the magical words of this brilliant writer.As some are unaware of, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is Dickens' last and unfinished work. With the lack of notes about how the novel ends, we are left with our imagination

When Ernie produced The Mystery of Edwin Drood at the last Gentlemen's Book Club he took me to one side before the others could muscle in. 'Here,' he said, 'I knew you'd be interested in this.' He was right. After all, when we first formed the club I'd expressed a particular interest in filling the Dickens-shaped hole in my education. I'd rather had in mind something like Oliver Twist or The Pickwick Papers, but this seemed as good a place to start as any. My knowledge of this particular book

When I was young and foolish I skipped The Mystery of Edwin Drood because Charles Dickens never finished it, and how could I read anything and not know how it ended? But that foolishness then allowed me now, forty years later, to "discover" this new (to me) Dickens text, and to read it from the beginning with the question, What is Dickens setting up here? Indeed, my own expectation is that in the first half of a book the Problem has been announced and all the main characters (their motives and

I knew at the outset that Dickens died before he had the chance to finish this novel, but I didn't realize how incredibly frustrated I was going to be because of it! It seems that he was just getting somewhere, and that there was going to be some climactic action coming up shortly, and then poof. No more book. But on the other hand, it was so good getting to that point, and as noted, I am aware that The Mystery of Edwin Drood was unfinished, so I can't say that I was all that frustrated, really.

From time to time, I like to revisit the classics. In 1870, Charles Dickens died from a stroke in the middle of writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The book was never finished, and there weren't a lot of details in any notes or conversations for anyone to fully know his intentions for the ending. Readers were left with an open-ended story and have to decide for themselves. Years ago, the book was converted to a script and performed on Broadway. I meant to buy tickets but got distracted and never

I didn't finish reading this book because Dickens didn't finish writing it. (He died instead, thus creating a real mystery.) As Chesterton wrote, "And alone, perhaps, among detective-story writers, he never lived to destroy his mystery."

Ive begun The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens. It is the last novel Dickens wrote and he never finished it. It was due to be serialised in 12 monthly instalments beginning in April of 1870. Dickens completed six and died of a stroke the 9th of June, 1870. His death was both sudden and unexpected. Why read read an unfinished work? Well, what we have of the novel is magnificent. He was at the height of his powers and had he lived Drood would certainly have been one of his finest works.