The Story of Alice

Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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Vintage
18 April 2016

Biography: literary; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

The definitive biography of Lewis Carroll, his child-muse Alice Liddell, and the creation of Alice in Wonderland

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD

This 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.

By: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 391g
ISBN: 9780099594031
ISBN 10: 009959403X
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 18 April 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His most recent book, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, won the Duff Cooper Prize.

Reviews for The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland

It is the ultimate book about Alice - comprehensive and scholarly, but so delightfully and elegantly written that it's a true work of literature -- Jacqueline Wilson The Story of Alice is the best book on the myriad enigmas of Carroll’s heart-breaking wonderland I have ever read -- Robert McCrum * Observer * Superb…toweringly the best of the dozens of books on Carroll which I have read -- AN Wilson * Financial Times * Douglas-Fairhurst is a startling and exciting writer -- A.S. Byatt * Spectator * This is biography at its best -- Lyndall Gordon * New Statesman *