The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Chapters 10-16,  03/26/23
Channel: The Dickens Project
Date: 2023-04-04

This is a Zoom recording of the 03/26/23 Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Dickens Fellowship meeting, the second of three discussions focusing on Charles Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work, the unfinished 'Mystery of Edwin Drood.' Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel, since its author died without providing a solution, 'Drood' has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. 

Join Dickens enthusiast, writer, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: "I first read 'Drood' in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then, and still am, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self, anticipating Stevenson's 'Jekyll and Hyde' by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know, that theory has stayed with me since, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens's various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers."