Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.
What the Dickens Happened to Edwin Drood?: An Exclusive with Charles Dickens
Saturday 22nd | 4:30PM
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood is his final novel, left unfinished at the time of his death on the 9th of June 1870. The novel focuses on John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, who is in love with his student, Rosa Bud. Drood then vanishes under mysterious circumstances. The remainder of the story has been unknown… until now. Nearly 150 years since his own death, at this ClassiCon 2019 Exclusive Event, Dickens will reveal exactly what happened to Edwin Drood..
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This edition contains an introduction by David Paroissien, discussing the novel's ending, with a chronology, notes, original illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes, appendices on opium use in the nineteenth century, the 'Sapsea Fragment' and Dickens's plans for the story's conclusion.
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Purchase your copy of The Mystery of Edwin Drood from Waterstones
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ISBN: 9780140439267
RRP: £8.99
'I will fasten the crime of the murder of my dear dead boy upon the murderer. And, That I devote myself to his destruction.'
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- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
