Word: kubla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work "inimitable." His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, its sentences as convoluted as London streets, its title ominously resonant of "dread" and "mood," lies half done: 23 chapters and some scattered notes. Like such unfinished masterpieces as Schubert's Eighth Symphony, Coleridge's Kubla Khan, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, Drood powerfully intrigues readers and writers. Publishers offer Dickens' friend Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone, the privilege of completing Edwin Drood; he declines, but later writes a similar story of duality and the changing tales of good and evil; he calls...