The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot
by Andrew Lang
★3.5/5
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Chapters (34)
- THE PUZZLE OF DICKENS’S LAST PLOT
- INTRODUCTION
- THE STORY
- Opening of the Tale
- Sapsea and Durdles
- The Landlesses
- Mr. Grewgious
- The Unaccountable Expedition
- Purpose of the Expedition
- Christmas Eve
- After the Disappearance
- Dick Datchery
- Jasper, Rosa, and Tartar
- Jasper’s Opium Visions
- Datchery and the Opium Woman
- Datchery’s Score
- THEORIES OF THE MYSTERY
- Forster’s Evidence
- “A New Idea”
- Mr. Proctor’s Theory
- A Mistaken Theory
- Another Way
- Dickens’s Unused Draft of a Chapter
- A Question of Taste
- Mr. Proctor’s Theory Continued
- Mr. Cuming Walters’s Theory
- Evidence of Collins’s Drawings
- Mr. Walters’s Theory Continued
- Who was the Princess Puffer?
- Who was Jasper?
- CONCLUSION
- FOOTNOTES
- p. vi
- p. 1
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