# The Story of Alice

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- Authors: [Robert Douglas-Fairhurst](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-douglas-fairhurst)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9959-403-1
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2016-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.