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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Simon WinchesterPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 14.70cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.40cm Weight: 0.279kg ISBN: 9780195396195ISBN 10: 0195396197 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 24 March 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsengaging account The Lady sensitive and erudite read Sunday Express Mr Winchester elegantly written study provides a balanced, sympathetic portrait of a complex and gifted man. Wall Street Journal sensitive and erudite read Sunday Express Mr Winchester elegantly written study provides a balanced, sympathetic portrait of a complex and gifted man. Wall Street Journal <br> Well-founded, witty and perceptive. --Kirkus<br> Mr Winchester elegantly written study provides a balanced, sympathetic portrait of a complex and gifted man. Wall Street Journal Author InformationSimon 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |