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    Metamorphosis

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time: we defuse an argument with a joke; we swerve to prevent a traffic accident. But sometimes…

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    Metamorphosis

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heartbreaking book about how to live

    A darkly comic and moving reflection on…

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    The Collected Peter Pan

    Sir J. M. Barrie

    A collection of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan stories--from his first appearance in The Little White Bird to the final version of the Peter Pan play we know today.

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    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

    Great Expectations includes some of Dickens’s most memorable characters - Magwitch, Miss Havisham, Estella - encountered by young Pip as he grows into adulthood. This edition features a wide-ranging introduction…

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    The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times *BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS AND THE STORY OF ALICE* ‘It…

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    The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times *BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS AND THE STORY OF ALICE* ‘It…

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    The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD This is the secret history of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies…

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    Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide…

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    The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll’s imaginative…

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    Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Magdalen College, Oxford)

    This study examines a Victorian obsession with ‘influence’, the often unpredictable after-effects of words and actions, in fields as diverse as mesmerism and theology, literary theory and sanitation reform.

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    Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Magdalen College, Oxford)

    This study examines a Victorian obsession with ‘influence’, the often unpredictable after-effects of words and actions, in fields as diverse as mesmerism and theology, literary theory and sanitation reform.

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    The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory

    Peter Auger

    Thorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope, ‘The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory’ is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and…

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    A Christmas Carol: and Other Christmas Stories

    Charles Dickens,Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding…

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    Tennyson Among the Poets: Bicentenary Essays

    A major retrospective consisting of newly-commissioned essays by an impressive line-up of literary critics devoted to assessing the career and subsequent standing of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published at the bicentenary…

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    Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, this novel depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the oppression of the French aristocracy in the years…

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    London Labour and the London Poor

    Henry Mayhew

    This groundbreaking investigation into the lives of London’s underclass was undertaken by Henry Mayhew in the 1850s. His interviews with street traders, beggars, and thieves results in a work as…

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    A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

    A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding…

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    The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll’s imaginative…

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    The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll’s imaginative…

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    The Collected Peter Pan

    J. M. Barrie

    A new collection of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan stories–from his first appearance in The Little White Bird to the final version of the Peter Pan play we know today.

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    The Water-Babies

    Charles Kingsley

    The Water-Babies is an extraordinary children’s book that combines fantasy, satire, social comment, and evolutionary theory to create a fairy tale like no other. This attractive new edition reprints the…

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    The Water -Babies

    Charles Kingsley

    The Water-Babies is an extraordinary children’s book that combines fantasy, satire, social comment, and evolutionary theory to create a fairy tale like no other. This attractive new edition reprints the…

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