In this book Mr. Andrew Lang attempts to discover the intention of Dickens as to the "mystery of Edwin Drood," left unsolved by the death of the author. The question is, was Edwin Drood slain by his uncle, John Jasper, as Jasper himself certainly believed; and, if Edwin escaped, how did he escape, and how would Jasper be unaware of his own failure to murder his nephew? There are other subsidiary puzzles of which solutions are offered. The original cover of _Edwin Drood_, with two of Luke Fildes's original illustrations, are reproduced for the purpose of identifying the portraits and costumes of the persons in the romance. NEW 6s. NOVELS BY POPULAR AUTHORS _BY THE AUTHOR OF 'JEMINA,' 'THE OTHER SON,' etc._ =OXENDALE.= By ELLA MACMAHON, Author of 'A New Note,' etc., etc. Crown 8vo, 6_s._ _BY THE AUTHOR OF 'THE SILVER KEY'_ =BEGGARS' LUCK.= By NELLIE K. BLISSETT, Author of 'Bindweed,' etc. Crown 8vo, 6_s._ _A FAMOUS ITALIAN NOVEL_ =NOSTALGIA.= By GRAZIA DELEDDA, Author of 'Cenere,' etc. Translated by HELEN HESTER COLVILL. _BY THE AUTHOR OF 'LOVE THE ATONEMENT'_ =SPIRITUAL ADVENTURES.= By FRANCES CAMPBELL, Author of 'Two Queenslanders and their Friends.' _BY THE AUTHOR OF 'JOHN WESTACOTT'_ =THE INSEPARABLES.= By JAMES BAKER, Author of 'The Gleaming Dawn,' 'Mark Tillotson,' etc. LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD. * * * * * TRANSCRIBER NOTES Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs= A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For those words, the variant more frequently used was retained. The book also contains vernacular conversation in Italian. Obvious punctuation errors were fixed. Other printing errors, which were not detected during the revision of the printing process of the original book, have been corrected. A Table of Content was added after the author's preface. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Nostalgia, by Grazia Deledda