Oct 12, 2008
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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