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THE STORY OF ALICE
LEWIS CARROLL AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF WONDERLAND |
| By: |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846558611 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846558610 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
26 March, 2015 |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Description: |
Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award, this title 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. |
| Synopsis: |
This title was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award. It is the 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 Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape - the birth of photography,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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Harvill Secker |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Costa Biography Award 2016
Short-listed for Costa Biography Award 2015 |
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Returnable |
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