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| Title | : | Alice I Have Been |
| Author | : | Melanie Benjamin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 345 pages |
| Published | : | January 12th 2010 by Random House Publishing Group (first published December 9th 2009) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Adult Fiction. Audiobook. Romance. Victorian |
Melanie Benjamin
Hardcover | Pages: 345 pages Rating: 3.64 | 13921 Users | 2394 Reviews
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Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful?
Alice Liddell Hargreaves’s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she’s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only “Alice.” Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year–the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories.
That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice–he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice’s childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war.
For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey.
A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire.
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| Original Title: | Alice I Have Been |
| ISBN: | 0385344139 (ISBN13: 9780385344135) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.melaniebenjamin.com/alice-i-have-been1.php |
| Characters: | Alice Liddell |
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Ratings: 3.64 From 13921 Users | 2394 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books Alice I Have Been
A novelisation of the life of Alice Pleasance Liddell, widely considered the inspiration behind the title character of [Author: Lewis Carroll]s two famous works [Book: Alice in Wonderland] and [Book: Alice Through the Looking Glass]Disappointingly, this is yet another case of an American choosing to base their own work around a work of classic British literature and failing to do their homework. (See [Book: Dracula in Love] for an excellent example of this, if you are prepared to suffer). ImEh, more like 2.5. But I rounded up for the sake of the middle portion, which was much more interesting than either Part 1 or Part 3. The opening section takes forever with a bratty young Alice, while the last bit with Old Alice & the gradual deaths of everyone in her life was alternately dull and/or depressing. Part 2, however, with Alice's struggle to be a young woman whilst in the (unwanted?) shadow of Wonderland & Dodgson's moony eyes & Ruskin's weird melodrama, combined with
After I finished reading this book I did some research on Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll to separate fact from fiction. Before doing this I was going to give it 3 stars but changed my rating to 4 stars. I realized that the author did an amazing job in weaving a novel around the lives of these two people. The book is about the life of Alice and her family, friends, loves and especially her relationship with Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll).The connection between these two and the suggestion of
I am giving this book 2 stars--but not for the reasons I am reading other folks here talk about in their 2 star reviews...I was gonna give this book a 3 til I read what the author had to say at the end...This ticked me off!! What a load of crap!So first she says that she wants to be clear about not having an agenda in writing this--that her personal opinions on how all this stuff may or may not have gone down totally is not what her book is about...and then in the same breath, she says just the
Having just finished Nabakov's Lolita I was looking for something to refresh my mind from the heavy, morally depressing, but brillantly written story about the mind of a depraved child-abuser.I found I had picked up from the library, quite by chance a book entitled "Alice I Have Been". One of the things I love about books is that when I'm "in the zone" the right book seems to come to hand at the right time. And this indeed was the right time for me to read about Alice Liddell, the girl who
Sometimes I like to read books I know will depress me. It's a weird habit, but something which keeps me in touch with my empathetic side. I found Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin to be a heartbreaking novel. Alice I Have Been follows the life of Alice Liddell, the real life Alice In Wonderland. Read the rest of my review here
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