The Mystery of Edwin Drood

by Charles Dickens

Overview

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD is Charles Dicken's contribution to the field of crime and its detection.

When young Edwin Drood disappears, suspicion centers on John Jasper, a drug addicted choirmaster who hungers after Drood's fiancee. There is also Neville Landless, a Ceylonese who has previously quarreled violently with the missing man.

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD is further enhanced because it was left unfinished at the author's death. Thus the book has challenged the imagination of generations of readers.

"Certainly one of the most beautiful of all." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788829516315
Publisher:	Publisher s11838
Publication date:	09/26/2018
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Charles Dickens

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington

Read an Excerpt

Characteristically, Charles Dickens blends tragedy and comedy and peoples this novel with an array of outlandish individuals. Narrator David Timson expertly translates into audio the complexities of Dickens’s multilayered plotline, and he gives each of Dickens’s peculiar characters a distinct voice—from the menacing Mr. Jasper to the pretentious Miss Twinkleton and the endearing Mr. Crisparkle. Dickens died before finishing this novel, so no one knows exactly how the mystery of Edwin Drood’s disappearance would have been resolved. This production includes a summary of the likely ending as Dickens’s friend and biographer John Forster saw it. EDWIN DROOD feels like an incomplete work, but Timson’s deft narration makes it possible to appreciate its rich Dickensian passages. L.X. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

Table of Contents

Introduction by G. K. Chesterton
I The Dawn
II A Dean, and a Chapter Also
III The Nuns' House
IV Mr. Sapsea
V Mr. Durdles and Friend
VI Philanthropy in Minor Canon Corner
VII More Confidences Than One
VIII Daggers Drawn
IX Birds in the Bush
X Smoothing the Way
XI A Picture and a Ring
XII A Night with Durdles
XIII Both at Their Best
XIV When Shall These Three Meet Again?
XV Impeached
XVI Devoted
XVII Philanthropy, Professional and Unprofessional
XVIII A Settler in Cloisterham
XIX Shadow on the Sun-Dial
XX A Flight
XXI A Recognition
XXII A Gritty State of Things Comes On
XXIII The Dawn Again
Appendix: The "Sapsea Fragment"

Editorial Reviews

"The influence of Charles Dickens on the development and achievements of detective fiction is unchallengeable."  —The Times

"The influence of Charles Dickens on the development and achievements of detective fiction is unchallengeable."  —The Times

From the Publisher

Characteristically, Charles Dickens blends tragedy and comedy and peoples this novel with an array of outlandish individuals. Narrator David Timson expertly translates into audio the complexities of Dickens’s multilayered plotline, and he gives each of Dickens’s peculiar characters a distinct voice—from the menacing Mr. Jasper to the pretentious Miss Twinkleton and the endearing Mr. Crisparkle. Dickens died before finishing this novel, so no one knows exactly how the mystery of Edwin Drood’s disappearance would have been resolved. This production includes a summary of the likely ending as Dickens’s friend and biographer John Forster saw it. EDWIN DROOD feels like an incomplete work, but Timson’s deft narration makes it possible to appreciate its rich Dickensian passages. L.X. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

MAY 2012 - AudioFile