Life is full of surprises. For my birthday (which was last Saturday, the 12th) I received a very special book from a friend of mine. It was a book on one of my favorite subjects: Alice, from the Alice in Wonderland book tales!
This book was a story in which the authoress, Melanie Benjamin, mixed the fact and fiction surrounding Alice Pleasance Liddell's and Rev. Charles Dodgson's (aka Lewis Carroll's) lives into a quaint, curious tale that both entertains fully as well as leaves you puzzling... "so what was the real story?"
Other than that all that, all you need to know before running our & buying or borrowing this book is that you probably should read up on the real story first, if you want to be able to distinguish it through the reading. Now, if that's no concern for you, and you just want it all to blend together beautifully in your head:this is the perfect story for that. :) Go right on ahead...
Also, Melanie Benjamin really did her homework on the facts that we do know about the two families. So, if you're any sort of a historical AiW buff, you will really enjoy (like I did) all the little details carefully tucked in the story!
Just don't forget to,
"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop." *
~Hannah
That looks like a fascinating book! I'm not quite an AiW history buff, but I thoroughly enjoy both AiW and Through the Looking-Glass :-)
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Oh, they are fun books, aren't they? :)
ReplyDeleteYou know, he wrote a couple more as well. My favorites of that lot are the two Bruno & Sylvie volumes. They are incredibly funny and full of riddles! :D
That's a funny quote...I remember that one. :)
What a hoot Dodgson's books were & are!