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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Original publication
1870
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
591
Difficulty
★★☆
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Romance
Translated from
English

Book summary

Edwin Drood disappears suddenly, leaving behind a circle of close acquaintances in which each person may be hiding a secret. John Jasper, a respected yet tormented man, seems connected to this mysterious disappearance. The investigation unfolds in a heavy atmosphere of suspicion where appearances are deceptive. The story builds constant tension around an unfinished mystery. The author constructs a dark and intriguing plot, maintaining doubt about everyone’s true intentions.

The plot

A young man vanishes on Christmas Eve. Young Edwin Drood is to marry Rosa Bud, a girl who lives at a boarding school. Their fathers decided it long ago.

The world of the book

A small English town around its cathedral. The story takes place in the 19th century in Cloisterham, a quiet little town in south-east England, around an old cathedral. The name is made up: Dickens modelled it on…

The author

A Swiss chalet to write in. Famous all over the world, Charles Dickens lives in the countryside near Rochester, in England. An actor friend gives him a real Swiss chalet, which arrives from Paris in 94 pieces. Dickens…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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