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	The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The story is a murder mystery in which Edwin Drood is supposedly murdered and suspicion is cast on his uncle.
		Edwin's uncle and guardian, John Jasper, choirmaster and opium addict, is Rosa's music teacher and is secretly in love with her.
		Grewgious gives Drood a ring, taken from the finger of Rosa's dead mother, with instructions to give the ring to Rosa on the date of their betrothal, and cautions him that if he has doubts of his love for Rosa that he will return the ring to Grewgious.
	www.fidnet.com /~dap1955/dickens/drood.html (1534 words)

	The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The novel is named after Edwin Drood, but it mostly tells the story of his uncle, a Jekyll-and-Hyde-esque choirmaster named John Jasper, who is in love with his pupil, Rosa Bud.
		Miss Bud is Drood's fiance, and has caught the eye of the high spirited and hot tempered Neville Landless, who comes from Ceylon with his twin sister, Helena, and immediately makes an enemy of Drood.
		Charles Dickens's Themes An analysis of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, explaining its themes and allusions, and offering a solution to its mysteries, including the identity of Datchery and Jasper's split personality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mystery_of_Edwin_Drood (470 words)

	The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		It describes, as will be seen, the disappearance of the young architect Edwin Drood after a night of festivity which was supposed to celebrate his reconciliation with a temporary enemy, Neville Landless, and was held at the house of his uncle John Jasper.
		This first mystery (which is no longer a mystery) of Jasper's guilt, is only worth remarking because it shows that Dickens meant and felt himself able to mask all his batteries with real artistic strategy and artistic caution.
		But the mystery of Edwin Drood from our point of view, from that of his critics, and those who have with some courage (after his death) attempted to be his collaborators, is simply this.
	www.online-literature.com /Dickens/edwindrood (3813 words)

	BookkooB: The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
		The Mystery of Edwin Drood is exactly half a novel, the first six of twelve planned instalments, Dickens dying before the second six were completed.
		Edwin Drood was going to be a much shorter and leaner novel than its predecessor, with no subplots and fewer characters.
		Indeed, the mysterious narrator at the beginning of the former novel is none other than Master Humphrey telling the story to his group of friends, a club of elderly gentlemen meet to tell each other stories; and here later, Mr Pickwick joins this group, allowing Dickens to also involve the Wellers from The Pickwick Papers.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
		It is clear that Jasper is in love with her, whilst she and Edwin have been betrothed ever since childhood at the express dying wish of his father.
		Edwin and Rosa meet again, and Rosa declares her desire to suspend their engagement; Edwin agrees, but decides not to reveal anything to Jasper at present.
		Edwin bumps into Princess Puffer, the owner of the opium den frequented by Jasper, who warns him that a man with the name of Ned is in danger for his life.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=114 (1893 words)

	Anti Essays : : The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
		She uses her power over Edwin, which is given through love and devotion to her and both of their parent’s wishes for them to be married, as a way to stay in control at the nunnery.
		Edwin Drood comes to Cloisterham somewhat to see his uncle, Jasper, but mostly to see Rosebud, whom he is engaged to.
		She states that Edwin must “love her with all of his heart”(53), which proves that she is kept in the dark about Rosa and Edwin’s true feelings for each other.
	www.antiessays.com /print.php?eid=558 (1674 words)

	GO Brooklyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For those not familiar with Dickens' original tale, the novel is about two orphans, Edwin Drood and Rosa Bud, who have been pledged to each other by their fathers.
		Drood is played by the famous male impersonator Miss Alice Nutting (Mary Mossberg), Uncle Jasper (who becomes a Jekyll-and-Hyde-like choirmaster) is played by Mr.
		"Edwin Drood" is a show that definitely should be seen once, and hopefully more than once to get the full flavor of the different endings.
	www.go-brooklyn.com /html/issues/_vol26/26_42/edwindrood.html (763 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens.
		The audience votes which of the characters is the murderer: brief alternate endings are provided for each potential killer, even the most unlikely.
		The Mystery of Edwin Drood was scheduled to be published in twelve installments (shorter than Dickens' usual twenty) from April 1870 to March 1871, each costing one shilling and illustrated by S.L. Fildes.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Mystery-of-Edwin-Drood (320 words)

	drood - Auctions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Decoding of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens) - $9.50
		Edwin Drood by charles dickens circa 1920 - $3.52
		1941 The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens - $2.00
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	"The mystery of Edwin Drood" by Frederic G. Kitton (1897)
		Here, in a bedroom which commanded a splendid view of the Park, much of "Edwin Drood" was written; although the roar of Oxford Street beneath made itself very obvious, he was not affected by it, being singularly unsusceptible to noise.
		Luke Fildes, R.A., the illustrator of the story, is convinced that Dickens intended Edwin Drood should be killed by his uncle--an opinion strengthened by the admission of Mr.
		A prominent feature of "Edwin Drood" is the graphic account of opium-dens and their frequenters, which are still to be found in the East End of London.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca /gaslight/kittdrud.htm (2826 words)

	THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD - Charles Dickens - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edwin Drood is contracted to marry Orphan Rosa, but they break the engagement off-and soon afterwards Edwin disappears.
		Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.
		This edition features a new critical introduction that assesses the evidence to show whether the mystery can truly be solved, as well as a chronology, illustrations, appendixes (including one on opium use in the nineteenth century).
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	Notes on The Mystery of Edwin Drood
		Edwin Drood- the title character, had the world handed to him on a platter as soon as he came of age (that is, money and a wife) by his dead father.
		On a visit to Grewgious, Drood is warned that if he does not love Rosa he will be doing her a great disservice in marrying her.
		But Edwin Drood walks away afterward toward a river after talking alone with Neville and is never seen from again.
	dickensfordummies.homestead.com /drood.html (983 words)

	The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
		In town it is Christmas Eve, and Drood and Rosa share their true feelings for one another in "PERFECT STRANGERS." They call off their wedding plans and vow to be friends forever, but in light of the holiday, decide to keep up the charade a bit longer.
		We are shown that Alice Nutting, our Drood, in order to fulfill her contract to appear in two acts of the play, has been wearing the disguise of Datchery.
		But Drood is unanimously voted dead by the cast, and Alice is sent on her way.
	www.musicalheaven.com /m/mystery_of_edwin_drood.shtml (1483 words)

	The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mystery of Edwin Drood (later renamed Drood) was a musical comedy adaptation (by Rupert Holmes) of Dickens's novel, which was first produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, and which opened on Broadway in 1985 and has since played successfully in regional productions.
		Some claim that the novel was one-third complete, but actually, it is exactly half finished.
		The Mystery of Edwin Drood - in easy to read HTML format.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /The_Mystery_of_Edwin_Drood (238 words)

	The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mystery of Edwin Drood (later renamed Drood) was a musical comedy adaptation (by Holmes) of Dickens's novel which was first by the New York Shakespeare Festival and opened on Broadway in 1985 and has since played successfully in productions.
		The audience votes which of the is the murderer: brief alternate endings are for each potential killer even the most Betty Buckley Cleo Laine George Rose Donna Murphy Judy Kuhn and Howard were in the cast.
		The Mystery of Edwin Drood (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
	www.freeglossary.com /The_Mystery_of_Edwin_Drood (269 words)

	The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
		The D. Case: The Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood
		Edwin Drood: Antichrist in the Cathedral (Critical Studies Series)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /the_mystery_of_edwin_drood.htm (37 words)

	Shaw Festival Theatre - Essay - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
		However, as Drood's author and composer, I can emphatically state that its performance here at the Shaw Festival - whose seasons, standards and stylizations I have so respected and enjoyed over the years - is a true high point in its history.
		I'd let the audience decide who was the murderer, who was the Detective in Disguise, which pair of lovers had a happy ending, by writing an extra act's worth of material from which one of hundreds of combinations of endings could be created on the spot.
		When I finished Joe said that, if I wanted, The Mystery of Edwin Drood would debut at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park in place of the usual Shakespearean fare he presented free each summer, and that if that went well, it could move straight to Broadway.
	www.rupertholmes.com /theatre/essdrood.html (1672 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A highly atmospheric tale of murder, The Mystery of Edwin Drood foreshadows both the detective stories of Conan Doyle and the nightmarish novels of Kafka.
		And while seeming to smile on the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, he is, in fact, consumed by jealousy, driven to terrify the boy’s fiancée and to plot the murder of Edwin himself.
		Though The Mystery of Edwin Drood is one of its author’s darkest books, it also bustles with a vast roster of memorable–and delightfully named–minor characters: Mrs.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/140004328X (343 words)

	KDHX Theatre Review - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Victorian England, whilst certain gentlemen and ladies were adjusting their starched collars and crinolines, anticipating an evening of expurgated Shakespearean drama, others were whooping it up in music halls to the likes of jugglers, contortionists, singers and let's not forget Professor Duncan with his amazing performing collie.
		In this rollicking spirit, a fictitious troupe of actors performs The Mystery of Edwin Drood, for this play-within-a-play based on Charles Dickens' whodunit.
		of young Edwin Drood (Becca Ayers), engaged to Miss Rosa Bud (Kelly Sullivan) a damsel whose beauty tugs at the heartstrings of various men, including Drood's own Uncle John Jasper (Michael Halling), a Choirmaster with a slight opium addiction.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/mystery_of_edwin_drood.html (619 words)

	The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first genuine mystery novel written by Dickens was never finished and was published posthumously in 1870 leaving the mystery unsolved forever.
		The choirmaster of Cloisterham, Jack Jasper, has a ward named Edwin Drood, a respectable young man engaged to Rosa Bud.
		Underneath the respectability Drood is an opium addict and no longer loves Rosa, the secret love of Jasper.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/charlesdickens/TheMysteryofEdwinDrood/toc.html (147 words)

	The New Leader: The mystery of Edwin Drood. (Imperial Theater, New York) (theater reviews)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The New Leader: The mystery of Edwin Drood.
		WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT called it "a straightaway detective story which might almost be used as a model for this type of fiction." Better known as S.S. Van Dine, creator of the Philo Vance novels, he was giving his expert opinion of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the last work started by Charles Dickens.
		It was published in installments during the spring of 1870, but Dickens died before writing the second half.
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	The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
		You may enjoy reading "The D. Case, or The Truth About The Mystery of Edwin Drood", by Charles Dickens, Carlo Fruttero, and Franco Lucentini (1989, translated from the Italian by Gregory Dowling, published 1992 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York.
		The public domain e-text of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" was scanned and proofread by David Price.
	books.mirror.org /dickens/drood/index.html (141 words)

	Mystery of Edwin Drood
		Winner of five Tony Awards and nine Drama Desk Awards, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" currently is playing at Summit's Candlelight Dinner Playhouse as well as at Highland Park's Apple Tree.
		As Drood, she's a little too petite and feminine to be believable, even as a very young boy.
		Because the audience is such an integral part of "Drood," it also shares some of the blame if the show proves boring.
	jaehakim.com /articles/stage/revu/drood.htm (686 words)

	Drood Items (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens - Folio Society
		1941 The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
		Dickens Mystery of Edwin Drood in original parts VG Lulu Ernie Wise Edwin Drood Musical 1987 Programme
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	Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Landless insists that he and Drood have made up their quarrel (but there appears to be no witness to this).
		Most of the details that survive suggest that Edwin was not going to reappear.
		It has beens suggested that DROOD would have ended with Jasper in the death cell, thinking about his crimes (he may actually have ended up killing at least two other characters before the end), and defending his conduct to his own satisfaction.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0026758 (1184 words)

	The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A cross between a parlor game, a Victorian melodrama, and a British Music Hall production, ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' has entertained and intrigued audiences since it premiered to critical acclaim at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1985.
		John Jasper, the Jekyll-and-Hyde choirmaster, is infatuated with Miss Rosa Bud, a music student who has been betrothed from birth to Jasper's nephew, Edwin Drood.
		In the best tradition of the British Music Hall, the events are emceed by a ''Chairman,'' a flamboyant Bill Mutimer, who finds himself suddenly playing a part in Drood when one of the actors is too drunk to go on.
	www.paplayhouse.org /droodreview.htm (464 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes
		I was prepared to be frustrated that I would never know how the mystery was solved, but the novel ends before you really get to know what the mystery is! Edwin Drood disappears and is presumed dead, and Dickens makes it look as if a certain person is guilty of his murder.
		Drood has been the fiancé of Rosa Bud for most of his life, an arrangement made by his and Rosa's deceased fathers to honor their friendship, and the wedding is expected within the year.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192545167?v=glance (2061 words)

	The Mystery of Edwin Drood
		The story then begins in earnest with Edwin Drood preparing to leave for Egypt to build the Cairo Transverse.
		It is now Christmas Eve and we join Drood and Rosa taking a nice even stroll through the Cloisterham cemetery after talking for a few moments they realize that they are both unhappy about their coming marriage.
		And just when you thought the evening was over, young Edwin Drood returns from beyond the grave, to say that though he has seen “The Writing on the Wall”, that you would persevere though it all and you come out ok, ‘or something along those lines’.
	www.stanford.edu /group/rams-head/archives/sprshow/02/DroodSynopsis.html (772 words)

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