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The Alice Behind Wonderland Hardback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Simon Winchester

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On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.

Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless speculation--as the vehicle for a brief excursion behind the lens, a focal point on the origins of a classic work of English literature. Dodgson's love of photography framed his view of the world and was partly responsible for transforming a shy and half-deaf mathematician into one of the world's best-loved observers of childhood. Little wonder that there is more to "Alice Liddell as the Beggar Maid" than meets the eye. Using Dodgson's published writings, private diaries, and of course his photographic portraits, Winchester gently exposes the development of Lewis Carroll and the making of his Alice.

Acclaim for Simon Winchester

"An exceptionally engaging guide at home everywhere, ready for anything, full of gusto and seemingly omnivorous curiosity."
--Pico Iyer, The New York Times Book Review

"A master at telling a complex story compellingly and lucidly."
--USA Today

"Extraordinarily graceful."
--Time

"Winchester is an exquisite writer and a deft anecdoteur."
--Christopher Buckley

"A lyrical writer and an indefatigable researcher."
--Newsweek

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  • Title The Alice Behind Wonderland
  • Author Simon Winchester
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Publication date 2011-03-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195396195 / 0195396197
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.7 in (21.08 x 14.22 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010053503
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.8

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/01/2011, Page 16
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 11/01/2011, Page 182
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2010, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 01/01/2011, Page 98
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/28/2011, Page 0

About the author

Simon Winchester is the author of Atlantic, The Professor and the Madman, The Map that Changed the World, and A Crack in the Edge of the World, all of which have been New York Times bestsellers. In recognition of his accomplished body of work, Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2006. He lives in Manhattan and western Massachusetts.
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