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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor); Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Oxford World Classics) by Charles Dickens; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped ...Show more
Becoming Dickens : The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Category: Biography
Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens's early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the nov ...Show more
Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Category: Culture
Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens's early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the nov ...Show more
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Category: Biography
"A pitch-perfect memoir: stylish, erudite, touchingly honest and darkly funny." Jacqueline Wilson"We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting ro ...Show more
Metamorphosis - A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Category: Biography
A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting room of an ...Show more
Story of Alice; Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Category: Biography
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage - a short cut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second ...Show more
The Collected Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the stories grew older, so too did Peter, reappearing ...Show more
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Category: Culture
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage - a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second s ...Show more
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Category: Biography
This title was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award. This is the secret story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his second ...Show more
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College, Oxford Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford Oxford University)
Category: Biography
Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the chi ...Show more
The Turning Point - 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Category: History
A major new biography that takes an unusual and illuminating approach to the great writer--immersing us in one year of his life--from the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice. The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic in ...Show more