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

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

Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important rev...

'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'Peter Pan, the boy who refused...

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

'I go about the street with water-creases crying, "e;Four bunches a penny, water-creases.&quo...

Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important rev...

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

'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remai...

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

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