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Published
Vintage Arrow, February 2016
ISBN
9780099594031
Format
Softcover, 496 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 3.2cm

The Story of Alice Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland by

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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

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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