The story takes place in Cloisterham, an imaginary city inspired by Dickens by Rochester, Kent, whose topography, architecture and atmosphere, well known to him, spent part of his childhood in the nearby town of Chatham , Are faithfully cited4,5. It concerns especially the young Edwin Drood, orphan promised by will to Rosa Bud, also orphan, union matching a coquette fortune. Edwin Drood is closely linked to his uncle Jasper, a divided character, a follower of London opium smoking, and a choirmaster, choirmaster at the city's cathedral and secretly in love with his future niece. Other rather mysterious characters, such as the twins Neville and Helena Landless from Ceylon, complicate the relationships between the various actors in the story.
The story takes place in Cloisterham, an imaginary city inspired by Dickens by Rochester, Kent, whose topography, architecture and atmosphere, well known to him, spent part of his childhood in the nearby town of Chatham , Are faithfully cited4,5. It concerns especially the young Edwin Drood, orphan promised by will to Rosa Bud, also orphan, union matching a coquette fortune. Edwin Drood is closely linked to his uncle Jasper, a divided character, a follower of London opium smoking, and a choirmaster, choirmaster at the city's cathedral and secretly in love with his future niece. Other rather mysterious characters, such as the twins Neville and Helena Landless from Ceylon, complicate the relationships between the various actors in the story.
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Charles Dickens (Portsmuth, 1812 – Gadshill, 1870) ha llegado hasta nosotros como el autor más importante e influyente de la literatura victoriana. Sus obras y su peripecia personal, íntimamente relacionadas, plasmaron no sólo el pulso social de su época, también el terrible estado moral de una sociedad atrapada en la desigualdad y las convenciones. Dickens experimentó la miseria, el éxito popular, la cárcel, el hambre... sólo logró cumplir con el más íntimo de sus anhelos, la libertad, entregándose a la literatura. Aunque muchas de sus obras gozaron de un extraordinario favor popular, baste decir que muchas de ellas fueron publicadas por entregas, en formato folletín; serían las críticas entusiastas de George Gissing y G. K. Chesterton las que encumbrarían a Dickens como el autor más importante de la literatura inglesa del siglo XIX.
