The Story of Alice

The Story of Alice
ISBN-10
0674967798
ISBN-13
9780674967793
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
496
Language
English
Published
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Description

Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, the author examines the peculiar friendship between Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories, and analyzes how this relationship stirred Carroll's imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland.

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