The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, unfinished at the time of the author's death. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on his uncle, choirmaster and opium addict, John Jasper, who is in love with Drood's fiancee, Rosa. The unfortunate girl has also caught the eye of a certain Neville Landless. Landless and Drood take an instant dislike to one another, and Drood later disappears under mysterious circumstances...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, unfinished at the time of the author's death. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on his uncle, choirmaster and opium addict, John Jasper, who is in love with Drood's fiancee, Rosa. The unfortunate girl has also caught the eye of a certain Neville Landless. Landless and Drood take an instant dislike to one another, and Drood later disappears under mysterious circumstances...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, unfinished at the time of the author's death. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on his uncle, choirmaster and opium addict, John Jasper, who is in love with Drood's fiancee, Rosa. The unfortunate girl has also caught the eye of a certain Neville Landless. Landless and Drood take an instant dislike to one another, and Drood later disappears under mysterious circumstances...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, unfinished at the time of the author's death. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on his uncle, choirmaster and opium addict, John Jasper, who is in love with Drood's fiancee, Rosa. The unfortunate girl has also caught the eye of a certain Neville Landless. Landless and Drood take an instant dislike to one another, and Drood later disappears under mysterious circumstances...

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. This volume contains two novels, including The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the final unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings. The Haunted House is a collection of ghost tales by Dickens, who wrote the opening and closing stories, framing them, and five other authors: Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Adelaide Anne Procter, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell.

'Dickens's finest work in the genre of the detective story was his last' The Times Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears. Beyond this there are further intrigues: the dark opium underworld of the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of choir-master Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his appearance. Dickens died before completing Edwin Drood, leaving generations of readers to try and solve its tantalizing mystery.

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. 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 jealous uncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is the killer. And beyond this presumed crime there are further intrigues, for example, the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Dickens died before completing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, leaving its tantalising mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. 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 jealous uncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is the killer. And beyond this presumed crime there are further intrigues, for example, the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Dickens died before completing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, leaving its tantalising mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel's themes. At the centre of the plot lie the baffling disappearance of Edwin Drood and the many explanations of his whereabouts. A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens's usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story. Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder and guilt and childhood romance. This unusual selection illustrates Dickens's immense creativity and versatility.

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Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. . .Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. . .Неадаптированное издание на английском языке. .

Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. . .Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. . .Неадаптированное издание на английском языке. .

Le Mystere d'Edwin Drood est le dernier roman de Charles Dickens, mort en 1870 avant d'avoir pu l'achever. La narration est centree sur la disparition inexpliquee du jeune Edwin Drood, en apparence comble par son oncle John Jasper, maitre de choeur a la cathedrale de Cloisterham, ainsi que par la perspective d'un mariage avec l'orpheline Rosa Bud.Jasper mene tout d'abord l'enquete, mais suscite bien vite les soupcons du lecteur, car il mene une double vie, opiomane a ses heures et amoureux de Rosa. De surcroit, Jasper ignorait qu'Edwin et Rosa avaient rompu leurs fiancailles, la veille meme de la disparition... Le texte de Dickens s'arrete avec l'apparition d'un detective pretendant s'appeler Datchery, dont la criniere blanche laisse a penser qu'il est, sous un deguisement, un personnage deja connu du lecteur...Depuis plus d'un siecle, lecteurs, ecrivains et critiques tentent d'elucider l'enigme. Edwin Drood a-t-il simule sa propre disparition ? S'il est mort, qui l'a tue ? Qui est Dick Datchery ? Qui Rosa choisira-t-elle d'epouser ? Une suite est publiee aux Etats-Unis des 1871, une autre deux ans plus tard en Angleterre, ecrite « par l'intermediaire d'un medium ». Plusieurs fins ont ete proposees, notamment par Chesterton, Jean-Pierre Ohl, Jean Ray ou Dan Simmons (Drood, Robert Laffont, 2011). C'est la solution de l'ecrivain belge Paul Maury (publiee en 1956), alias Paul Kinnet, auteur de polars, que reproduit la presente edition.

‘Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together’ Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens? Dickens knew the city inside out, walking the streets day and night, in all weathers, and drawing inspiration from everything he saw. The fog, the mud, the churning river, the clamour of church bells, and at every corner schemes of business or pleasure – this is Dickens’s London in the company of some of his most memorable characters. Selected from the work of Charles Dickens