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...

Rightly rejecting familiar accounts of Charles Dickens's life, Douglas-Fairhurst's biography shows us the forlorn and driven young Dickens who tried his hand at the law, journalism and acting before finally committing to a career as a...

"The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World" von Robert Douglas-Fairhurst untersucht das Jahr 1851, ein entscheidendes Jahr im Leben von Charles Dickens und in der Geschichte des viktorianischen Englands. In diesem Jahr...