Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Broschiertes Buch

The Story of Alice

Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland

Beschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject.

Autor

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, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, The Story of Alice, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, and Metamorphosis. He writes regularly for publications including The Times, the Literary Review and the 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 both of the Enola Holmes feature films for Netflix. He has judged the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize, and in 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 699847
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9780099594031
• ISBN-10: 009959403X
• Artikelnr.: 43791796

Rezensionen

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