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

ISBN-13: 9780099594031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 496 str.

Douglas-Fairhurst Robert

Opis

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award, this is the secret story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is about love and loss, innocence and ambiguity.

Recenzje

It is the ultimate book about Alice - comprehensive and scholarly, but so delightfully and elegantly written that it's a true work of literature Jacqueline Wilson

O autorze

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His books include Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, and The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World. He writes regularly for publications including The Times, Guardian, TLS and Spectator. Radio and television appearances include Start the Week and The Culture Show, and he has also acted as the historical consultant on TV adaptations of Jane Eyre, Emma, Great Expectations, the BBC drama series Dickensian, and the feature film Enola Holmes. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.