The Story of Alice

An examination of the lives of author Lewis Carroll & Alice Liddell and the creation of the “Alice” stories & their ongoing popularity. Following 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 Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom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 sto