The Story of Alice - Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his second self, Lewis Carroll, was a storyteller, innovator and avid collector of 'child-friends'. Carroll's imagination was to give Alice Liddell, his 'dream-child', a fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up. This is a biography that beautifully unravels the magic of Alice. It is a history of love and loss, innocence and ambiguity. It is the story of one man's need to make a Wonderland in a changing world.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Douglas-Fairhurst Robert
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780099594031
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959403-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form