THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
de Dickens Charles
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. 6 volumes. First Edition in the six original monthly parts. Earliest issue of Part 6 with the "Price Eighteenpence" slip pasted over the one shilling price on the front wrapper, with the "Edwin Drood Advertiser" in each part. With the engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved title-page issued when Part No. 6 was issued, and 12 additional wood-engraved plates after S. L. Fildes. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, housed in a black cloth foldover case, with lettering label mimicking the design of the title on the wrappers. A very well preserved and handsome set with some minor chipping at the spine panels. FIRST EDITION OF THIS, DICKENS' LAST NOVEL, IN THE ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. A very nice set agreeing with the collation given in Hatton and Cleaver with very few exceptions, the "cork" ad not present.
Dickens' last and unfinished work. Inspired by and intended to rival Wilkie Collins' THE MOONSTONE, the mystery's elusive solution has been attempted by numerous authors since.
Dickens' last and unfinished work. Inspired by and intended to rival Wilkie Collins' THE MOONSTONE, the mystery's elusive solution has been attempted by numerous authors since.
Sinopsis
The Mystery of Edwin Drood marked the last of Charles Dickens novels, and was left unfinished in its publication. It follows the story of an orphan, Edwin Drood who worked as an engineer for his adoptive father’s firm, and his betrothal to fellow orphan Rosa Bud. As they come to age there is recognition that their love has been replaced by friendship, and the engagement is soon broken off. 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 killer was his jealous uncle John Jasper, or a fellow orphan Neville, who were both madly in love with Rosa. The fantastical story intrigues the reader with the darkness the opium dens within the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Charles Dickens passed before the novel could be completed, leaving a tantalizing mystery that will never be solved.
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- Título
- THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
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- Dickens Charles
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- Chapman and Hall
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- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1870
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