The Problem of 'Edwin Drood'

About this eBook

Author

Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir, 1851-1923

Title

The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of Dickens

Credits

This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Murder in literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36311

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36311

Release Date

June 3, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE PROBLEM OF ‘EDWIN DROOD’
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.PART I.—THE MATERIALS FOR A SOLUTION — CHAPTER I—THE TEXT OF EDWIN DROOD — SENTENCES AND PARTS OF SENTENCES ERASED BY DICKENS — THE MANUSCRIPT — CHAPTER II—EXTERNAL TESTIMONIES — JOHN FORSTER’S TESTIMONY — MADAME PERUGINI’S TESTIMONY — THE TESTIMONY OF CHARLES DICKENS THE YOUNGER — THE TESTIMONY OF SIR LUKE FILDES — NOTES FOR THE NOVEL — CHAPTER III—THE ILLUSTRATIONS ON THE WRAPPER — PROFESSOR JACKSON’S READING — MR. ANDREW LANG’S INTERPRETATION IN ‘THE PUZZLE OF DICKENS’S LAST PLOT’ — DR. JAMES’S VIEW — MR. HUGH THOMSON’S READING — MR. CUMING WALTERS’S READING — CHAPTER IV—THE METHODS OF DICKENS — HALF-WAY IN DICKENS — THE LENGTH OF DICKENS’S NOVELS — ‘BLEAK HOUSE’ — ‘OUR MUTUAL FRIEND’ — ‘LITTLE DORRIT’ — ‘A TALE OF TWO CITIES’ — ‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’ — WILKIE COLLINS ‘AHEAD OF ALL THE FIELD’ — ‘A BACKWARD LIGHT’ — EDGAR ALLAN POE AND DICKENS: A MYSTIFICATION — THE STORY OF SOLOMON DAISY — WHERE POE FAILED — WHERE POE SUCCEEDED — DICKENS’S WAY
6. 6.PART II—ATTEMPT AT A SOLUTION — CHAPTER V—WAS EDWIN DROOD MURDERED? — I. — II. DICKENS’S OWN NOTE — III. THE ADMITTED TESTIMONY OF THE BOOK — IV. THE RING — V. — THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE DISAPPEARANCE THEORY — ‘WHEN SHALL THESE THREE MEET AGAIN?’ — ‘EDWIN DROOD IN HIDING’ — THE MANNER OF THE MURDER — CHAPTER VI—WHO WAS DATCHERY? — THE PRINCIPLES OF DISGUISE — THE NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS — HELENA LANDLESS — DATCHERY’S WISTFUL GAZE — DATCHERY’S WIG — DATCHERY’S HANDS — THE ORIGIN OF DICKENS’S IDEA — OBJECTIONS — WHAT DICKENS DID NOT MEAN US TO READ — CHAPTER VII—OTHER THEORIES — THE DROOD-DATCHERY THEORY — THE BAZZARD-DATCHERY THEORY — THE GREWGIOUS-DATCHERY THEORY — THE DATCHERY-NEVILLE THEORY — THE TARTAR-DATCHERY THEORY — CHAPTER VIII—HOW WAS ‘EDWIN DROOD’ TO END?
7. 7.THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD A BIBLIOGRAPHY COMPILED BY B. W. MATZ
8. 8.INDEX
9. 9.NOTES.

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