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The Mystery Of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1870
Pages
Pages 310

A cathedral choirmaster smokes opium and wants his nephew's fiancée. The nephew vanishes on a storm-wrecked Christmas Eve, a young outsider is blamed, and the novel breaks off unfinished because its author died writing it.

I hate it. The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens

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