The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Dickens
- First Published: 1870
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Obsession, England or English people, Orphans or orphanages, Opium
- Locales: London, England
Places Discussed
Cloisterham. Fictional cathedral town in southern England in which the novel is primarily set. The orphaned young Edwin Drood’s work as an apprentice engineer takes him all over the world, but he returns to Cloisterham at every opportunity to see his fiancé, Rosa Bud, also an orphan, who is attending a finishing school in Cloisterham, and his guardian and uncle, Jasper, who is the novel’s central figure. Dark themes of death, violence, and obsession pervade the novel, and the town’s cathedral is a forbidding and relentless presence that foreshadows the...
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Charles Dickens (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Charles Dickens (Censorship)Charles Dickens (Dictionary of World Biography)Charles Dickens (Short Fiction)Charles Dickens (Long Fiction)Charles Dickens (Mystery and Detective Fiction)
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