The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of Dickens
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THE PROBLEM OF ‘EDWIN DROOD’
p. viiCONTENTS
p. ixPREFACE
p. xviiINTRODUCTION
p. 1PART I.—THE MATERIALS FOR A SOLUTION
p. 3CHAPTER I—THE TEXT OF EDWIN DROOD
SENTENCES AND PARTS OF SENTENCES ERASED BY DICKENS
THE MANUSCRIPT
SENTENCES AND PARTS OF SENTENCES ERASED BY DICKENS
THE MANUSCRIPT
p. 20CHAPTER II—EXTERNAL TESTIMONIES
p. 21JOHN FORSTER’S TESTIMONY
MADAME PERUGINI’S TESTIMONY
THE TESTIMONY OF CHARLES DICKENS THE YOUNGER
THE TESTIMONY OF SIR LUKE FILDES
p. 56NOTES FOR THE NOVEL
p. 21JOHN FORSTER’S TESTIMONY
MADAME PERUGINI’S TESTIMONY
THE TESTIMONY OF CHARLES DICKENS THE YOUNGER
THE TESTIMONY OF SIR LUKE FILDES
p. 56NOTES FOR THE NOVEL
p. 69CHAPTER 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
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
p. 82CHAPTER IV—THE METHODS OF DICKENS
HALF-WAY IN DICKENS
p. 83THE LENGTH OF DICKENS’S NOVELS
‘BLEAK HOUSE’
‘OUR MUTUAL FRIEND’
‘LITTLE DORRIT’
‘A TALE OF TWO CITIES’
‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’
p. 90WILKIE COLLINS ‘AHEAD OF ALL THE FIELD’
‘A BACKWARD LIGHT’
p. 93EDGAR ALLAN POE AND DICKENS: A MYSTIFICATION
THE STORY OF SOLOMON DAISY
WHERE POE FAILED
p. 101WHERE POE SUCCEEDED
p. 104DICKENS’S WAY
HALF-WAY IN DICKENS
p. 83THE LENGTH OF DICKENS’S NOVELS
‘BLEAK HOUSE’
‘OUR MUTUAL FRIEND’
‘LITTLE DORRIT’
‘A TALE OF TWO CITIES’
‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’
p. 90WILKIE COLLINS ‘AHEAD OF ALL THE FIELD’
‘A BACKWARD LIGHT’
p. 93EDGAR ALLAN POE AND DICKENS: A MYSTIFICATION
THE STORY OF SOLOMON DAISY
WHERE POE FAILED
p. 101WHERE POE SUCCEEDED
p. 104DICKENS’S WAY
p. 107PART II—ATTEMPT AT A SOLUTION
p. 109CHAPTER 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
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
p. 141CHAPTER VI—WHO WAS DATCHERY?
p. 146THE 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
p. 146THE 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
p. 177CHAPTER VII—OTHER THEORIES
THE DROOD-DATCHERY THEORY
p. 179THE BAZZARD-DATCHERY THEORY
THE GREWGIOUS-DATCHERY THEORY
THE DATCHERY-NEVILLE THEORY
THE TARTAR-DATCHERY THEORY
THE DROOD-DATCHERY THEORY
p. 179THE BAZZARD-DATCHERY THEORY
THE GREWGIOUS-DATCHERY THEORY
THE DATCHERY-NEVILLE THEORY
THE TARTAR-DATCHERY THEORY
p. 184CHAPTER VIII—HOW WAS ‘EDWIN DROOD’ TO END?
p. 203THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD A BIBLIOGRAPHY COMPILED BY B. W. MATZ
p. 210INDEX
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