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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The Wizardry of Boz: A Brief History of Charles Dickens on Screen
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Series Has Big Shoes to Fill (About 400 Pairs of Them)
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“Even in photographs it looked as if his soul had been ‘pumped out of him.’’
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| March 1, 2022
On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas
A Close Reading of A Christmas Carol
By
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
| December 20, 2018
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