The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Book Overview

Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories, and analyzes how this relationship stirred Carroll's imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674970764
• ISBN13: 9780674970762
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.8"