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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Paper book: €36.99

Digital: €12.99

Original publication
1870
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
738
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Romance
Moods
Solve a mystery
Translated from
English

Book summary

In the little town of Cloisterham, in the shadow of its cathedral, young Edwin Drood is to marry Rosa Bud, a bride chosen for him since childhood. His uncle, John Jasper, the choirmaster, seems to love him dearly, but he secretly smokes opium and hides a passion for Rosa. One Christmas night, Edwin disappears.

Dickens died before finishing this novel, without leaving the solution. For more than a hundred and fifty years, readers have been trying to guess what happened to Edwin.

Full of suspense, this novel is a pleasure to read in the language you are learning.

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…

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