THE STORY OF ALICE: LEWIS CARROLL AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF WONDERLAND

Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B78534

English Summary/英文概要： Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage – a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years.

But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second self, Lewis Carroll – storyteller, innovator and avid collector of ’child-friends’. And of his ’dream-child’, Alice Liddell, and the fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up.

This is their secret story: a history of love and loss, of innocence and ambiguity, and of one man’s need to make Wonderland his refuge in a rapidly changing world.

Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape – the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood and sexuality and the tensions inherent in the transition between the Victorian and modern worlds.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我们文化传承中的一部分总是留有一处险境 — —这是一切美丽而又令人困惑事物的最真纪录; 150年来，曾一直被艺术家们、作家和政治家用于隐喻。但在童话故事背后，那为作者和他复杂的历史及相关话题:查尔斯•道奇森，这位文豪，和他第二个自我，刘易斯•卡罗尔 — 故事作者、创新者和偏好喜爱’‘小玩偶’ 的收藏家’。他的’小孩梦想’，艾丽丝•利德尔，和故事虚构下，不会长大的女孩的自我改变。这是他们的秘密故事: 一段关于爱与失去的、纯真和懵懂，的历史，一个男人在大千世界下，急需一处桃源般仙境避世的故事。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD

"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)

"The Story of Alice is the best book on the myriad enigmas of Carroll’s heart-breaking wonderland I have ever read" (Robert McCrum Observer)

"Superb…toweringly the best of the dozens of books on Carroll which I have read" (AN Wilson Financial Times)

"Douglas-Fairhurst is a startling and exciting writer" (A.S. Byatt Spectator)

"This is biography at its best" (Lyndall Gordon New Statesman)

About the Author/作者介绍： 1968年出生的Robert Douglas-Fairhurst，定居于牛津，是牛津莫德林学院一名英文系助教。他近期发表的一部《成为狄更斯》，荣获达夫•库珀传记奖。

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst was born in 1968 and lives in Oxford, where he is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College. His most recent book, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, won the Duff Cooper Prize for Biography.

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