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The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot

Andrew Lang

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. . .He is being watched by the hag, who hates him.

Jasper returns to Cloisterham, where we are introduced to the Dean, a nonentity, and to Minor Canon Crisparkle, a muscular Christian in the pink of training, a classical scholar, and a good honest fellow.  Jasper gives Edwin a dinner, and gushes over “his bright boy,” a lively lad, full of chaff, but also full of confiding affection and tenderness of heart.  Edwin admits that his betrothal is a bore: Jasper admits that he loathes his life; and that the church singing “often sounds to me quite devilish,”—and no wonder.  After this dinner, Jasper has a “weird seizure;” “a strange film comes over Jasper’s eyes,” he “looks frightfully ill,” becomes rigid, and admits that he “has been taking opium for a pain, an agony that sometimes overcomes me.”  This “agony,” we learn, is the pain of hearing Edwin speak lightly of his lo. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I have always been a fan of Dickens. To me, he was one of the greatest literary giants. If I had to choose between him and many of his contemporaries in America, I would choose Dickens every time. I have seen many works finishing or attempting to finish his final work, which he was writing when he d

Well worth reading for anyone mulling over the possible solution to "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". Now on with the longer book by Nicoll.