5/17/2023 0 Comments Dickens novel the mystery ofThe story follows the title character, an ordinary man whose sudden disappearance throws the fictional townspeople of Cloisterham into a panic. Why? Well, he never finished the book.ĭickens began writing what would become his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in 1870, with the plan of releasing a new installment every month for a year. But the fate of one famous Dickens character-young Edwin Drood-remains entirely unknown, almost 150 years after the author’s death. Before cracking the case, we dug up the Dickensian dirt on this infamously incomplete mystery.īritish author Charles Dickens created a host of famous literary characters who meet their demise by the turn of the last page: Miss Havisham went up in flames Sydney Carton lost his head even Jacob Marley was already dead on page one. A century later, Dickens’ fragmentary story inspired a zany 1985 Broadway musical, which is back on Broadway this fall in its first major revival. Even the greatest sleuths can’t get to the bottom of Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a novel that was left unfinished when the author died suddenly halfway through writing it.
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