A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is cer...

'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of th...

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

A collection of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan stories--from his first appearance in The Little White B...

A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain...

'A glittering gem of a book' Natalie HaynesA joyful and enlightening celebration of how reading a...

Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, ranging from debates ove...

'this is all a fairy tale...and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is tr...

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'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him...

A new collection of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan stories--from his first appearance in The Little Whi...

This major study examines a Victorian obsession with 'influence', the often unpredictable after-e...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in...

'I go about the street with water-creases crying, 'Four bunches a penny, water-creases.'' London ...

Rightly rejecting familiar accounts of Charles Dickens's life, Douglas-Fairhurst's biography show...

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgso...

A major retrospective consisting of newly-commissioned essays by an impressive line-up of literar...

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