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London Labour and the London Poor
Av Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
153 kr
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'I go about the street with water-creases crying, "Four bunches a penny, water-creases."'London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literature, and a groundbreaking work of sociology. Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews with London's street …
Look Closer
How to Get More Out of Reading
Inbunden, 2025
239 kr
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A TIMES and SPECTATOR Book of the Year'The best book about reading I have read for a very long time' STEPHEN FRY'A glittering gem of a book' NATALIE HAYNESA joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our livesAs an English literature professor, Robert …
The Collected Peter Pan
Av J. M. Barrie, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Häftad, 2023
106 kr
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'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'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 …
A Christmas Carol
and Other Christmas Stories
Av Charles Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Inbunden, 2018
215 kr
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'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 …
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Av Charles Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Häftad, 2008
106 kr
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'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 …
Story of Alice
Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland
Häftad, 2016
165 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history 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 self, …
London Labour and the London Poor
Av Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
E-bok, 2010
119 kr
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''I go about the street with water-creases crying, "Four bunches a penny, water-creases."'' London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literature, and a groundbreaking work of sociology. Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews with London''s …
Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Av Charles Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
E-bok, 2006
94 kr
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''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 …
Tennyson Among the Poets
Bicentenary Essays
Av Seamus Perry, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
E-bok, 2009
1687 kr
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Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson''s birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson in particular) a number of …
Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Av Charles Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
E-bok, 2006
94 kr
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''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 …
Tennyson Among the Poets
Bicentenary Essays
Av Seamus Perry, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
E-bok, 2009
1455 kr
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Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson''s birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson in particular) a number of …
Collected Peter Pan
Av J. M. Barrie, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
E-bok, 2019
199 kr
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''To die will be an awfully big adventure.'' 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 …
Collected Peter Pan
Av J. M. Barrie, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
E-bok, 2019
195 kr
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''To die will be an awfully big adventure.'' 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 Collected Peter Pan
Av J. M. Barrie, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Inbunden, 2022
215 kr
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'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'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 …
Victorian Afterlives
The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Inbunden, 2002
1514 kr
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Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Some of these questions emerged in the intellectual and …
Victorian Afterlives
The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Häftad, 2004
1198 kr
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Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth-century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Some of these questions emerged in the intellectual and …
Tennyson Among the Poets
Bicentenary Essays
Av Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Seamus Perry m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2956 kr
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Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson in particular) a number of …
Tale of Two Cities
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Charles Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Häftad, 2019
201 kr
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This Norton Critical Edition includes:The first edition of the novel (1859) accompanied by twenty-seven illustrations, from original images by Halbot Knight Browne (“Phiz”) to cartoons from The Simpsons.An expansive introduction and detailed explanatory annotations by Robert …
Becoming Dickens
The Invention of a Novelist
Häftad, 2013
296 kr
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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 …
Story of Alice
Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland
E-bok, 2015
125 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history 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 self, …
Turning Point
A Year that Changed Dickens and the World
E-bok, 2021
125 kr
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and early …
Turning Point
A Year that Changed Dickens and the World
Ljudbok, 2021
172 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. 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 * The year is 1851. It''s a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic …
Metamorphosis
A Life in Pieces
E-bok, 2023
170 kr
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A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor.‘A book that will stay with you for life’NATALIE HAYNES‘The best book about multiple sclerosis’THE TIMESWe all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump …
Metamorphosis
A Life in Pieces
Ljudbok, 2023
172 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. "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 we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden in the …
Metamorphosis
A Life in Pieces
Häftad, 2024
138 kr
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A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor.‘A book that will stay with you for life’NATALIE HAYNES‘The best book about multiple sclerosis’THE TIMESWe all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump …
Look Closer
How to Get More Out of Reading
Häftad, 2026
175 kr
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A TIMES and SPECTATOR Book of the Year'A love letter to the energising thrill of literature' SUNDAY TIMES'A lively book that seeks to enthuse us to read more deeply, more thoughtfully' THE TIMES'The best book about reading I have read for a very long time' STEPHEN FRYA joyful and enlightening …
Look Closer
How to Get More Out of Reading
E-bok, 2025
229 kr
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A TIMES and SPECTATOR Book of the Year'A love letter to the energising thrill of literature' SUNDAY TIMES'A lively book that seeks to enthuse us to read more deeply, more thoughtfully' THE TIMES'The best book about reading I have read for a very long time' STEPHEN FRYA joyful and enlightening …
Turning Point
A Year that Changed Dickens and the World
Häftad, 2022
142 kr
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and early …
