{"id":245,"date":"2017-07-18T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T11:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/?p=245"},"modified":"2017-07-18T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T11:29:48","slug":"robert-douglas-fairhurst-on-the-young-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/2017\/07\/18\/robert-douglas-fairhurst-on-the-young-dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on the young Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/332842736&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-362 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-18-at-12.08.40.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-18-at-12.08.40.png 403w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-18-at-12.08.40-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is another freshly re-edited recording from my archive. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst\u2019s biography of the first three decades of Dickens\u2019 life, published by Harvard University Press, is a terrifically readable, refreshing look at the author&#8217;s life story which rescues Dickens from a sense of inevitability, that the only fate reserved for him was to become the greatest novelist of his day: long beard, serious expression&#8230; From the very first page of his book, Robert embraces the counter-factual to jolt us out of our complacency and shows how often Dickens\u2019 life could have branched off in completely different directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another freshly re-edited recording from my archive. 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