Rochester is close to Dicken's country house Gad's Hill Place, where the final chapter was written and where Dickens died.Īdapted by Alan Chant from the Edwin Drood entry in Wikipedia.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. The story is set in Cloisterham, a lightly fictionalised Rochester (in Kent, England). Neville Landless and Edwin Drood take a dislike to one another the moment they meet. Miss Bud is Drood's fiancée, and has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless! Landless comes from Ceylon with his twin sister, Helena. Michael John Goodman, who is also the creator of the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive, had the idea to digitize the art from Dickens novels during the COVID-19 lockdown. The novel is named after Edwin Drood, one of the characters, but it mostly tells the story of his uncle, a choirmaster named John Jasper, who is in love with his pupil, Rosa Bud. The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery has archived all of the original images featured in Dickens work throughout his creative career.
It is a mystery indeed the serial novel was just half completed at the time of Dickens' death - leading to much speculation on how it might have ended. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. LibriVox recording of The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens.
0 kommentar(er)
