THE STORY OF ALICE by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst ( 9780099594031 )

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Title:

THE STORY OF ALICE
LEWIS CARROLL AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF WONDERLAND

By:

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

009959403X

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9780099594031

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Publisher:

VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

4 February, 2016

Pages:

496

Description:

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award, this is the secret story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is about love and loss, innocence and ambiguity.

Synopsis:

This title was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award. This is the secret story 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.

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Imprint:

Vintage

Prizes:

Short-listed for Costa Biography Award 2016 Short-listed for Costa Biography Award 2015

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Returnable

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