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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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in The United Kingdom

September 16, 1968

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Douglas-Fairhurst is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books include Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist and The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 3,601 ratings · 523 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 1,037,631 ratings — published 1859 — 9308 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland 3.62 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces 4.22 avg rating — 192 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Turning Point: 1851. A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World 3.87 avg rating — 183 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist 3.96 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading 3.74 avg rating — 122 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tennyson Among the Poets: Bicentenary Essays by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor), Seamus Perry (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.' A story reflects life but also redeems it: assembled on the page, even unpredictable events can be plotted, their random scatter made part of a meaningful design.”
― Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

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“(On Dickens) No other writer is quite as good at making marriage vows about remaining together "till death us do part" sound more like a suicide pact.”
― Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist

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“Dickens gave his readers history on a human scale.”
― Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World

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