* * * SPOILER ALERT * * * “. . . it must rank as Dickens’s strangest achievement.” (174) Ackroyd once again sets the stage for us in terms of Dickens’s activities and mindset leading up to and during the writing of his novel. “The only one of Dickens’s novels which he did not finishContinue reading "Supplement to The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
*** SPOILER ALERT *** Many people would now in fact regard it as the greatest of his works . . . Dickens was writing ahead of his time. (169) It is the strangest of Dickens’s novels, but in m…| All the (Dickensian) Year Round