The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

496 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll’s imaginative creation of ...

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