The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland - Brossura

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 009959403X ISBN 13: 9780099594031

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2016

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"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)

Descrizione del libro:

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

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 009959403X
• ISBN 13: 9780099594031
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496