The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens' Unfinished Novel & Our Endless Attempts to End It

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Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526724375
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens' Unfinished Novel & Our Endless Attempts to End It written by Pete Orford and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tantalizing tour through a true bibliomystery that will “get people talking about one of literature’s greatest enigmas” (KentOnline). When Dickens died on June 9, 1870, he was halfway through writing his last book, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Since that time, hundreds of academics, fans, authors, and playwrights have presented their own conclusion to this literary puzzler. Step into 150 years of Dickensian speculation to see how our attitudes both to Dickens and his mystifying last work have developed. At first, enterprising authors tried to cash in on an opportunity to finish Dickens’ book. Dogged attempts of early twentieth-century detectives proved Drood to be the greatest mystery of all time. Earnest academics of the mid-century reinvented Dickens as a modernist writer. Today, the glorious irreverence of modern bibliophiles reveals just how far people will go in their quest to find an ending worthy of Dickens. Whether you are a die-hard Drood fan or new to the controversy, Dickens scholar Pete Orford guides readers through the tangled web of theories and counter-theories surrounding this great literary riddle. From novels to websites; musicals to public trials; and academic tomes to erotic fiction, one thing is certain: there is no end to the inventiveness with which we redefine Dickens’ final story, and its enduring mystery.

The Edwin Drood Murders

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Publisher : Harrison Thurman Book
ISBN 13 : 9780985323639
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book The Edwin Drood Murders written by Christopher Lord and published by Harrison Thurman Book. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Droodists have arrived in Dickens Junction. Local bookstore owner Simon Alastair has his hands full in his role as co-chair for the latest convention honoring Charles Dickens's uncompleted novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. A movie star, a pesky blogger, dueling scholars, a stage hypnotist, and an old family friend (among others) all have claims on Simon's time. In addition, some Droodists are clearly more-or less-than they appear, including a mysterious young man by the improbable name of Edwin Drood. When a priceless ring and a rare Dickensian artifact go missing, Simon and his reporter-partner Zach Benjamin learn that someone will do anything-including murder-to obtain an object of desire. The Edwin Drood Murders is the new entry in the Dickens Junction mystery series that began with The Christmas Carol Murders, a book that New York Times thriller writer Chelsea Cain called "a love letter to both Dickens and to the small town amateur detectives who've kept the peace in hamlets from River Heights to Cabot Cove."

The Mystery of Edwin Drood ~ Paperbound

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Publisher : Classic Books Company
ISBN 13 : 074269691X
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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ISBN 13 : 9783348096850
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Where the Truth Lies

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588363287
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Book Synopsis Where the Truth Lies by : Rupert Holmes

Download or read book Where the Truth Lies written by Rupert Holmes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE O’Connor, a vivacious, free-spirited young journalist known for her penetrating celebrity interviews, is bent on unearthing secrets long ago buried by the handsome showbiz team of singer Vince Collins and comic Lanny Morris. These two highly desirable men, once inseparable (and insatiable, where women were concerned), were driven apart by a bizarre and unexplained death in which one of them may have played the part of murderer. As the tart-tongued, eye-catching O’Connor ventures deeper into this unsolved mystery, she finds herself compromisingly coiled around both men, knowing more about them than they realize and less than she might like, but increasingly fearful that she now knows far too much.

Hunted Down

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Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681956705
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Book Synopsis Hunted Down by : Charles Dickens

Download or read book Hunted Down written by Charles Dickens and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catchy detective tales. “A very little key will open a very heavy door.” - Hunted Down, Charles Dickens A fascinating selection of Dickens' detective stories about the law officers and the circumstances in which they work. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Mr. Dick, Or, The Tenth Book

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Publisher : Dedalus European Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781903517680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Mr. Dick, Or, The Tenth Book by : Jean-Pierre Ohl

Download or read book Mr. Dick, Or, The Tenth Book written by Jean-Pierre Ohl and published by Dedalus European Classics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel blends Charles Dickens and characters from his novels into a quest to discover the ending of Dickens' last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood which was left uncompleted at the author's death in 1870. Ohl's narrator, Francois Daumal nurtures a passion for Dickens. He systematically devours everything Dickens ever wrote, and develops a particular obsession with Edwin Drood. He becomes an expert on the subject, steeped in Dickensian studies, commentaries, critiques of all kinds, from the most specialist to the most exotically alternative. His discovery as a student that his obsession is shared by another, the smoothly urbane and ruthlessly ambitious Michel Mangematin, marks the beginning of a deadly rivalry that will be pursued over the following years with not only academic and worldly success at stake but also love, self-esteem, and even personal identity.

The Last Dickens

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448104297
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Dickens by : Matthew Pearl

Download or read book The Last Dickens written by Matthew Pearl and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1870. Charles Dickens is dead. The final instalment of his last manuscript has vanished. The script was last seen addressed to the publisher whose fortunes depend on it. Since its sudden disappearance the only clue to its whereabouts is a trail of brutal murders. With his livelihood - indeed his life - in jeopardy, Dickens' publisher sets out to unravel the mystery. The trail leads him from bustling West End theatres, through grimy East End backstreets, into the fug of illicit opium dens, as the crime he hopes to solve ensnares him.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
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Download or read book The Mystery of Edwin Drood written by Rupert Holmes and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Selections). This Charles Dickens novel was adapted for Broadway by Rupert Holmes in 1986, and went on to win 5 Tony Awards. 12 selections: There You Are * A Man Could Go Quite Mad * Two Kinsmen * Moonfall * The Wages of Sin * Both Sides of the Coin * Perfect Strangers * Never the Luck * Off to the Races * Don't Quit While You're Ahead * The Garden Path to Hell * The Writing on the Wall.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood ; Master Humphrey's Clock

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Total Pages : 378 pages
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Download or read book The Mystery of Edwin Drood ; Master Humphrey's Clock written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charles Dickens' Complete Works

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
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Download or read book Charles Dickens' Complete Works written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hard Times for These Times

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Total Pages : 700 pages
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Download or read book Hard Times for These Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062954962
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Charles Dickens written by A.N. Wilson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death. Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Experiencing the worst and best of life during the Victorian Age, Dickens was not merely the conduit through whom some of the most beloved characters in literature came into the world. He was one of them. Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, he seeks to understand Dickens’ creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’s fiction drew from his life—a fact he acknowledged. Like Oliver Twist, Dickens suffered a wretched childhood, then grew up to become not only a respectable gentleman but an artist of prodigious popularity. Dickens knew firsthand the poverty and pain his characters endured, including the scandal of a failed marriage. Going beyond standard narrative biography, A. N. Wilson brilliantly revisits the wellspring of Dickens’s vast and wild imagination, to reveal at long last why his novels captured the hearts of nineteenth century readers—and why they continue to resonate today. The Mystery of Charles Dickens is illustrated with 30 black-and-white images.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Edwin Drood written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Barnaby Rudge

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Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book Barnaby Rudge written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Bookaneer

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698195612
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Last Bookaneer written by Matthew Pearl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This swashbuckling tale of greed and great literature will remind you why Pearl is the reigning king of popular literary historical thrillers. His latest is guaranteed to delight lovers of history and mystery.”—Library Journal (starred review) book'a-neer' (bŏŏk'kå-nēr'), n. a literary pirate; an individual capable of doing all that must be done in the universe of books that publishers, authors, and readers must not have a part in London, 1890—Pen Davenport is the most infamous bookaneer in Europe. A master of disguise, he makes his living stalking harbors, coffeehouses, and print shops for the latest manuscript to steal. But this golden age of publishing is on the verge of collapse. For a hundred years, loose copyright laws and a hungry reading public created a unique opportunity: books could easily be published without an author’s permission. Authors gained fame but suffered financially—Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, to name a few—but publishers reaped enormous profits while readers bought books inexpensively. Yet on the eve of the twentieth century, a new international treaty is signed to grind this literary underground to a sharp halt. The bookaneers are on the verge of extinction. From the author of The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer is the astonishing story of these literary thieves’ epic final heist. On the island of Samoa, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labors over a new novel. The thought of one last book from the great author fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, and soon Davenport sets out for the South Pacific island. As always, Davenport is reluctantly accompanied by his assistant Fergins, who is whisked across the world for one final caper. Fergins soon discovers the supreme thrill of aiding Davenport in his quest to steal Stevenson’s manuscript and make a fortune before the new treaty ends the bookaneers’ trade forever. But Davenport is hardly the only bookaneer with a mind to pirate Stevenson’s last novel. His longtime adversary, the monstrous Belial, appears on the island, and soon Davenport, Fergins, and Belial find themselves embroiled in a conflict larger, perhaps, than literature itself. In The Last Bookaneer, Pearl crafts a finely wrought tale about a showdown between brilliant men in the last great act of their professions. It is nothing short of a page-turning journey to the heart of a lost era.

The Poe Shadow

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588365174
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Poe Shadow written by Matthew Pearl and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I present to you . . . the truth about this man’s death and my life.” Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe’s own family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Everyone, in fact, seems to believe this except a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe’s. As Quentin explores the puzzling circumstances of Poe’s demise, he discovers that the writer’s last days are riddled with unanswered questions the police are possibly willfully ignoring. Just when Poe’s death seems destined to remain a mystery, and forever sealing his ignominy, inspiration strikes Quentin–in the form of Poe’s own stories. The young attorney realizes that he must find the one person who can solve the strange case of Poe’s death: the real-life model for Poe’s brilliant fictional detective character, C. Auguste Dupin, the hero of ingenious tales of crime and detection. In short order, Quentin finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade, and the lost secrets of Poe’s final hours. With his own future hanging in the balance, Quentin Clark must turn master investigator himself to unchain his now imperiled fate from that of Poe’s. Following his phenomenal debut novel, The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl has once again crossed pitch-perfect literary history with innovative mystery to create a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense. Pearl’s groundbreaking research–featuring documented material never published before–opens a new window on the truth behind Poe’s demise, literary history’s most persistent enigma. The resulting novel is a publishing event that, through sublime craftsmanship, subtle wit, and devious twists, does honor to Poe himself