Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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1) The story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the secret history of Wonderland

Author

Pub. Date

2015.

Description

An examination of the lives of author Lewis Carroll & Alice Liddell and the creation of the "Alice" stories & their ongoing popularity. 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 Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom...

2) Great expectations

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

Oxford world's classics
The Oxford illustrated Dickens
Canterbury classics
Courage classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35

Appears on list

ESL Readers - Level 6

Formats

Book, CD, Large Print, Playaway

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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...