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The Turning Point: 1851—A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
By Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert & Ferrara, Silvia & Fierstein, Harvey & Galloway, Stephen & Miller, Lucasta & Nafisi, Azar & Polley, Sarah & Schur, Michael & Spector, Ronnie & Vince Waldron
- ISBN
- 9780525655947 9780374601621 9780593320525 9781538731970 9780525655831 9780062947369 9780593300350 9781982159313 9781250837196
- Publisher
- Knopf. Farrar Knopf. Grand Central Knopf. Dey Street: Morrow Penguin Pr. S. & S. Holt
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Reviewed on October 1, 2021 | Prepub Alert
A Duff Cooper Prize winner for Becoming Dickens, Oxford English professor Douglas-Fairhurst argues that for Dickens the emotionally tumultuous year of 1851 was The Turning Point that singularly shaped his oeuvre. A professor of Aegean civilization at the University of Bologna, Ferrera moves from Mesopotamia and Crete to China, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond to chronicle The Greatest Invention—writing. In I Was Better Last Night, Fierstein talks about being a cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award-winning actor and playwright. Emmy Award-winning writer Galloway, who created the Reporter's famed Oscar Roundtables, revisit...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
