The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Dickens, Charles
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- Hardcover
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- Very good in good dust jacket. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Hardcover in dust jacket condition good-PUBLISHED BY PANTHEON BOOKS-C
- ISBN 10
- 0394519183
- ISBN 13
- 9780394519180
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Synopsis
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 As they come to age there is recognition that their love has been replaced by friendship, and the engagement is soon broken off.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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- Red Rover Do Over (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0037820
- Title
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in good dust jacket. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Hardcover in dust jacket condition good-PUBLISHED BY PANTHEON BOOKS-C
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- American ed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394519183
- ISBN 13
- 9780394519180
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1980
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