Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is professor of English literature and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His books include Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist and The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland. Most recently, he has edited the new edition of A Christmas Carol and Other Stories for Oxford University Press.
Becoming Dickens
by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The perfect book. It told me new things about a subject I thought I knew well, it made the things I knew already interesting, and it made me laugh
Interviews with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The best books on Dickens and Christmas, recommended by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
When it was published on December 19th, 1843, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was an instant classic. Oxford Professor of English Literature Robert Douglas-Fairhurst runs through the best of Dickens’s prolific writings about Christmas.
Interviews where books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst were recommended
The best books on Life in the Victorian Age, recommended by Judith Flanders
History books often focus on big political or economic events, wars and leaders. But there’s much to learn from studying the way people lived, and what made the Victorian age both like and unlike our own, as Judith Flanders explains.