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The Story of Alice
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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Description for The Story of Alice
Paperback. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. This is a biography that beautifully unravels the magic of Alice. It is a history of love and loss, innocence and ambiguity. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099594031
SKU
V9780099594031
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99-99
About Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His books include Becoming Dickens, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, The Story of Alice, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, and Metamorphosis. He writes regularly for publications including The Times, the Literary Review and the Spectator. Radio and television appearances include Start the Week and The Culture Show and he has also acted as the historical consultant on TV adaptations of Jane Eyre, Emma, Great Expectations, the BBC drama series Dickensian and both of the Enola Holmes feature films for Netflix. He has judged the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize, and in 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Reviews for The Story of Alice
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
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