The story of Alice : Lewis Carroll and the secret history of Wonderland

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The story of Alice : Lewis Carroll and the secret history of Wonderland

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Harvill Secker, c2015

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape - the birth of photography,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.

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