[Gutenberg 36311] • The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of Dickens by Nicoll, Sir W. Robertson -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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THE PROBLEM OF ‘EDWIN DROOD’ CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART I.—THE MATERIALS FOR A SOLUTION

CHAPTER I—THE TEXT OF EDWIN DROOD

SENTENCES AND PARTS OF SENTENCES ERASED BY DICKENS THE MANUSCRIPT

CHAPTER II—EXTERNAL TESTIMONIES

JOHN FORSTER’S TESTIMONY MADAME PERUGINI’S TESTIMONY THE TESTIMONY OF CHARLES DICKENS THE YOUNGER THE TESTIMONY OF SIR LUKE FILDES NOTES FOR THE NOVEL

CHAPTER III—THE ILLUSTRATIONS ON THE WRAPPER

PROFESSOR JACKSON’S READING MR. ANDREW LANG’S INTERPRETATION IN ‘THE PUZZLE OF DICKENS’S LAST PLOT’ DR. JAMES’S VIEW MR. HUGH THOMSON’S READING MR. CUMING WALTERS’S READING

CHAPTER IV—THE METHODS OF DICKENS

HALF-WAY IN DICKENS THE LENGTH OF DICKENS’S NOVELS ‘BLEAK HOUSE’ ‘OUR MUTUAL FRIEND’ ‘LITTLE DORRIT’ ‘A TALE OF TWO CITIES’ ‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’ WILKIE COLLINS ‘AHEAD OF ALL THE FIELD’ ‘A BACKWARD LIGHT’ EDGAR ALLAN POE AND DICKENS: A MYSTIFICATION THE STORY OF SOLOMON DAISY WHERE POE FAILED WHERE POE SUCCEEDED DICKENS’S WAY

PART II—ATTEMPT AT A SOLUTION

CHAPTER V—WAS EDWIN DROOD MURDERED?

I. II. DICKENS’S OWN NOTE III. THE ADMITTED TESTIMONY OF THE BOOK IV. THE RING V. THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE DISAPPEARANCE THEORY ‘WHEN SHALL THESE THREE MEET AGAIN?’ ‘EDWIN DROOD IN HIDING’ THE MANNER OF THE MURDER

CHAPTER VI—WHO WAS DATCHERY?

THE PRINCIPLES OF DISGUISE THE NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS HELENA LANDLESS DATCHERY’S WISTFUL GAZE DATCHERY’S WIG DATCHERY’S HANDS THE ORIGIN OF DICKENS’S IDEA OBJECTIONS WHAT DICKENS DID NOT MEAN US TO READ

CHAPTER VII—OTHER THEORIES

THE DROOD-DATCHERY THEORY THE BAZZARD-DATCHERY THEORY THE GREWGIOUS-DATCHERY THEORY THE DATCHERY-NEVILLE THEORY THE TARTAR-DATCHERY THEORY

CHAPTER VIII—HOW WAS ‘EDWIN DROOD’ TO END?

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD A BIBLIOGRAPHY COMPILED BY B. W. MATZ INDEX NOTES.