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

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846558611 ISBN 13: 9781846558610

Verlag: Harvill Secker, 2015

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Dust jacket marked and worn, page edges tanned, bookseller's marks. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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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)

Reseña del editor:

*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Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape – the birth of photography,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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• Verlag: Harvill Secker
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1846558611
• ISBN 13: 9781846558610
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496