Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Dickens, Charles; Pearl, Matthew |
| Publisher: | Modern Library |
| Date: | 10/6/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’ s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud andthe book’s eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if soby whom? All clues point to John Jasper, Drood’s lugubrious uncle, who coveted did Drood orchestrate his own disappearance? As Charles Dickens died before finishingthe book, the ending is intriguingly ambiguous.
In his Introduction, Matthew Pearlilluminates the 150-year-long quest to unravel
The Mystery of Edwin Drood and lendsnew insight into the novel, the literary milieu of 1870s England, and the privatelife of Charles Dickens. This Modern Library edition includes new endnotes and afull transcript of “The Trial of John Jasper for the Murder of Edwin Drood,” the1914 mock court case presided over and argued by the likes of G. K. Chesterton andGeorge Bernard Shaw. Now diehard fans, new readers, and armchair detectives haveanother opportunity to solve the mystery Dickens took to his grave.
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