by Mavis Batey · Pitkin Guides · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780853728764
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«The World of Alice» is Mavis Batey's historical guide to the origin of Alice, published by Pitkin Guides in paperback (32 pages, in English).
Mavis Batey recounts how Lewis Carroll, real name Charles Dodgson, an Oxford professor with a gift for telling stories to children, invented the world of Alice. Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, insisted that these stories be written down, and from that came 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass'.
For readers curious about the history of children's literature and the figure of Lewis Carroll, as well as the origin of Alice's characters.
