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*Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award*
*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week *
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage – a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years.
But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second self, Lewis Carroll – storyteller, innovator and avid collector of 'child-friends'. And of his 'dream-child', Alice Liddell, and the fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up.
This is their secret story: a history of love and loss, of innocence and ambiguity, and of one man’s need to make Wonderland his refuge in a rapidly changing world.
Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape – the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood and sexuality and the tensions inherent in the transition between the Victorian and modern worlds.
*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week *
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage – a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years.
But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second self, Lewis Carroll – storyteller, innovator and avid collector of 'child-friends'. And of his 'dream-child', Alice Liddell, and the fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up.
This is their secret story: a history of love and loss, of innocence and ambiguity, and of one man’s need to make Wonderland his refuge in a rapidly changing world.
Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape – the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood and sexuality and the tensions inherent in the transition between the Victorian and modern worlds.
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"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)
"Magnificent" (5 Stars, Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express)
"Fascinating " (Book of the Week, Philip Collins Times)
"This accomplished book provides ample inspiration for readers to return to Wonderland" (Francesca Wade Prospect)
"Different times, and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst makes a sure-footed guide in unraveling them...intriguing" (Anthony Quinn Mail on Sunday)
"A fascinating telling of a great mystery story" (The Times)
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"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)
"Magnificent" (5 Stars, Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express)
"Fascinating " (Book of the Week, Philip Collins Times)
"This accomplished book provides ample inspiration for readers to return to Wonderland" (Francesca Wade Prospect)
"Different times, and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst makes a sure-footed guide in unraveling them...intriguing" (Anthony Quinn Mail on Sunday)
"A fascinating telling of a great mystery story" (The Times)
Where did Alice stop and 'Alice' begin? The definitive biography of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, published for the 150th anniversary of Alice In Wonderland.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1846558611
- ISBN 13 9781846558610
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