The Story of Alice

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<p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD</p><p>This is the secret history of<i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i>.</p><p>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. Carrolls imagination was to give Alice Liddell, his 'dream-child', a fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up.</p><p>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 mans need to make a Wonderland in a changing world.</p>

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<b>Robert Douglas-Fairhurst</b>is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His most recent book,<i>Becoming Dickens: The</i><i>Invention of a Novelist</i>, won the Duff Cooper Prize.

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