ISBN: 9781517553494

An ancient English Cathedral Tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower behere! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that behere! There is no spi… More...

An ancient English Cathedral Tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower behere! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that behere! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of thereal prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set upby the Sultan's orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one by one. It is so,for cymbals clash, and the Sultan goes by to his palace in long procession. Ten thousandscimitars flash in the sunlight, and thrice ten thousand dancing-girls strew flowers. Then,follow white elephants caparisoned in countless gorgeous colours, and infinite in numberand attendants. Still the Cathedral Tower rises in the background, where it cannot be, andstill no writhing figure is on the grim spike. Stay! Is the spike so low a thing as the rustyspike on the top of a post of an old bedstead that has tumbled all awry? Some vague periodof drowsy laughter must be devoted to the consideration of this possibility.Shaking from head to foot, the man whose scattered consciousness has thus fantasticallypieced itself together, at length rises, supports his trembling frame upon his arms, andlooks around. He is in the meanest and closest of small rooms. Through the raggedwindow-curtain, the light of early day steals in from a miserable court. He lies, dressed,across a large unseemly bed, upon a bedstead that has indeed given way under the weightupon it. Lying, also dressed and also across the bed, not longwise, are a Chinaman, a Lascar,and a haggard woman. The two first are in a sleep or stupor; the last is blowing at a kind ofpipe, to kindle it. And as she blows, and shading it with her lean hand, concentrates its redspark of light, it serves in the dim morning as a lamp to show him what he sees of her. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Thrillers-Psychological>Thrillers-Psychological, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781517553494

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens's death (9 … More...

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens's death (9 June 1870) and his ending for it is unknown. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on Drood's uncle, precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, John Jasper, who is in love with his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Drood's fiancée, has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless, who comes from Ceylon with his twin sister, Helena. Landless and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Drood later disappears under mysterious circumstances. The story is set in Cloisterham, a lightly disguised Rochester. Mr Crisparkle, for example, lives in a clergy house in Minor Canon Corner, which corresponds to a genuine address within the precincts of Rochester Cathedral, namely Minor Canon Row. The novel begins as John Jasper leaves a London opium den. The next evening, Edwin Drood visits Jasper, who is the choirmaster at Cloisterham Cathedral. Edwin confides that he has misgivings about his betrothal to Rosa Bud. The next day, Edwin visits Rosa at the Nuns' House, the boarding school where she lives. They quarrel good-naturedly, which they apparently do frequently during his visits. Meanwhile, Jasper, having an interest in the cathedral crypt, seeks the company of Durdles, a man who knows more about the crypt than anyone else., Crime, Crime<

ISBN: 9781517553494

Book Excerpt: ...like anything better than being moddley- coddleyed.'With the check upon him of being unsympathetically restrained in a genial outburst of enthusiasm, Mr. Jasper stand… More...

Book Excerpt: ...like anything better than being moddley- coddleyed.'With the check upon him of being unsympathetically restrained in a genial outburst of enthusiasm, Mr. Jasper stands still, and looks on intently at the young fellow, divesting himself of his outward coat, hat, gloves, and so forth. Once for all, a look of intentness and intensity--a look of hungry, exacting, watchful, and yet devoted affection--is always, now and ever afterwards, on the Jasper face whenever the Jasper face is addressed in this direction. And whenever it is so addressed, it is never, on this occasion or on any other, dividedly addressed; it is always concentrated.'Now I am right, and now I'll take my corner, Jack. Any dinner, Jack?'Mr. Jasper opens a door at the upper end of the room, and discloses a small inner room pleasantly lighted and prepared, wherein a comely dame is in the act of setting dishes on table.'What a jolly old Jack it is!' cries the young fellow, with a clap of his hands. 'Look here, Jack; tell me; whos... Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Thrillers-Psychological>Thrillers-Psychological, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781517553494

Dickens' final, unfinished novel has inspired generations of speculation Choirmaster John Jasper is a man of deep hypocrisy. His public reputation is flawless yet privately he leads … More...

Dickens' final, unfinished novel has inspired generations of speculation Choirmaster John Jasper is a man of deep hypocrisy. His public reputation is flawless yet privately he leads an immoral life, frequenting squalid opium dens. Although outwardly he seems delighted with the betrothal of his nephew Edwin Drood to Rosa Bud, one of his choristers, secretly he is consumed by jealousy. But he is not alone in hoping for Edwin's demise. Among others, hot-tempered Neville Landless has also made an enemy of Drood—so when Edwin disappears, at whom should the accusing finger point?   Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Thrillers-Psychological>Thrillers-Psychological, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781517553494

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens.[1][2], originally published in 1870.Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's… More...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens.[1][2], originally published in 1870.Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who is in love with his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Edwin Drood's fiancée, has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless. Landless and Edwin Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Later Drood disappears under mysterious circumstances. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Thrillers-Psychological>Thrillers-Psychological, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<