The Story of Alice : Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Genre:Literature & literary studies which raises fundamental issues of

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The Story of Alice : Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Genre:Literature & literary studies which raises fundamental issues ofFollowing his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom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.