The Alice Behind Wonderland

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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195396197

ISBN13:9780195396195

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:128 Pages

Weight:0.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"

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