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The Mystery of Edwin Drood Mass market paperbound - 1974

by Charles Dickens; A. Cox (Editor); Arthur J. Cox (Editor)

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood marked the last of Charles Dickens novels, and was left unfinished in its publication. It follows the story of an orphan, Edwin Drood who worked as an engineer for his adoptive father’s firm, and his betrothal to fellow orphan Rosa Bud. As they come to age there is recognition that their love has been replaced by friendship, and the engagement is soon broken off. 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 killer was his jealous uncle John Jasper, or a fellow orphan Neville, who were both  madly in love with Rosa. The fantastical story intrigues the reader with the darkness the opium dens within the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Charles Dickens passed before the novel could be completed, leaving a tantalizing mystery that will never be solved. 

From the publisher

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

First Edition Identification

Chapman & Hall published the First Edition, First Printing in London, 1870. The publication retains its original monthly parts, a selection of 6 books, individually bound in blue-green pictorial wrappers. 


Chapman & Hall published the First Edition, in London, 1870, and was bound in full red crushed morocco by Cedric Chivers in circa. 1911. This edition includes added illustrations, with the coat of arms for the city of Rocherster on the front panel and intricate details on the spine. Silk moire end papers, all edges gilt, extra-illustrated with 17 anonymously executed watercolors, depicting localites in Rochester, the inspiration for the setting of the novel, and Dickens's childhood home. Four of the original watercolors are in full color. Additional hand drawn title page; portrait of Fildes and John Forster tipped in, as well as a few leaves from Forster's "Life of Dickens" relating to this work. The publication retains its original monthly parts, a selection of 6 books, individually bound in blue-green pictorial wrappers. 


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  • Title The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • Author Charles Dickens; A. Cox (Editor); Arthur J. Cox (Editor)
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 1
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1974-06-30
  • ISBN 9780140430929 / 014043092X
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.14 x 0.68 in (19.81 x 13.06 x 1.73 cm)
  • Reading level 1070
  • Library of Congress subjects England, Detective and mystery stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 74176059
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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