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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

Dickens's final and unfinished work centers on John Jasper, a cathedral choirmaster and opium addict who desires his pupil Rosa Bud—the fiancée of his nephew Edwin Drood.

"The Mystery of Edwin Drood" by Charles Dickens is a novel. Dickens's final and unfinished work centers on John Jasper, a cathedral choirmaster and opium addict who desires his pupil Rosa Bud—the fiancée of his nephew Edwin Drood.

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An ancient English Cathedral Tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan’s orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one by one. It is so, for cymbals clash, and the Sultan goes by to his palace in long procession. Ten thousand scimitars flash in the sunlight, and thrice ten thousand dancing-girls strew flowers. Then, follow white elephants caparisoned in countless gorgeous colours, and infinite in number and attendants. Still the Cathedral Tower rises in the background, where it cannot be, and still no writhing figure is on the grim spike. Stay! Is the spike so low a thing as the rusty spike on the top of a post of an old bedstead that has tumbled all awry? Some vague period of drowsy laughter must be devoted to the consideration of this possibility.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. The Dawn
  2. 02Chapter II. A Dean, and a Chapter Also
  3. 03Chapter III. The Nuns’ House
  4. 04Chapter IV. Mr. Sapsea
  5. 05Chapter V. Mr. Durdles and Friend
  6. 06Chapter VI. Philanthropy in Minor Canon Corner
  7. 07Chapter VII. More Confidences Than One
  8. 08Chapter VIII. Daggers Drawn
  9. 09Chapter IX. Birds in the Bush
  10. 10Chapter X. Smoothing the Way
  11. 11Chapter XI. A Picture and a Ring
  12. 12Chapter XII. A Night with Durdles
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Both at Their Best
  14. 14Chapter XIV. When Shall These Three Meet Again?
  15. 15Chapter XV. Impeached
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Devoted
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Philanthropy, Professional and Unprofessional
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. A Settler in Cloisterham
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Shadow on the Sun-Dial
  20. 20Chapter XX. A Flight
  21. 21Chapter XXI. A Recognition
  22. 22Chapter XXII. A Gritty State of Things Comes on
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. The Dawn Again
  24. 24Appendix: Fragment of ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’
  25. 25How Mr. Sapsea Ceased to Be a Member of the Eight Club Told by Himself
  26. 26II

About this edition

Author
Charles Dickens
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
301 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers