The Puzzle of Dickens’s Last Plot

The Puzzle of Dickens’s Last Plot

Andrew Lang, scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology (1844-1912)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- INTRODUCTION

-03- THE STORY

-04- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

-05- OPENING OF THE TALE

-06- SAPSEA AND DURDLES

-07- THE LANDLESSES

-08- MR. GREWGIOUS

-09- THE UNACCOUNTABLE EXPEDITION

-10- PURPOSE OF THE EXPEDITION

-11- CHRISTMAS EVE

-12- AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE

-13- DICK DATCHERY

-14- FOR THE REASONS GIVEN, DATCHERY MIGHT BE HELENA IN DISGUISE

-15- JASPER, ROSA, AND TARTAR

-16- JASPER’S OPIUM VISIONS

-17- DATCHERY AND THE OPIUM WOMAN

-18- DATCHERY’S SCORE

-19- THEORIES OF THE MYSTERY

-20- FORSTER’S EVIDENCE

-21- A NEW IDE

-22- MR. PROCTOR’S THEORY

-23- A MISTAKEN THEORY

-24- ANOTHER WAY

-25- DICKENS’S UNUSED DRAFT OF A CHAPTER

-26- A QUESTION OF TASTE

-27- MR. PROCTOR’S THEORY CONTINUED

-28- MR. CUMING WALTERS’S THEORY

-29- EVIDENCE OF COLLINS’S DRAWINGS

-30- MR. WALTERS’S THEORY CONTINUED

-31- WHO WAS THE PRINCESS PUFFER

-32- WHO WAS JASPER

-33- CONCLUSION

-34- FOOTNOTES