As Melanie Benjamin says, this is the story of a man and a child, an artist and his muse. But the nature of their relationship, troubling to the reader from the start, haunts each of them for a lifetime. If there is any fault in this novel, it is that the last third, the years when Alice slowly comes to terms with her life, lack the electricity /5. BONUS: This edition contains an Alice I Have Been discussion guide and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb. 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 /5(). Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin is a first-person fictitious account of the Alice who inspired Lewis Carroll's, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book is divided into three parts, each introduced by an authentic photograph of the real Alice at various stages in her life. The first part is when she is a small girl living in Oxford, UK.
"Melanie Benjamin's Alice I Have Been is a richly woven fictional account of the life of the girl who became Alice in Wonderland. It's a mystery, and a love story, that follows Alice into adulthood after both tragic and wonderful experiences. 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. The novel has a Victorian feel to it, so for those of you who hanker for cameo brooches and tea time and manners, you will feel like you've stepped into the novel of your dreams. Alice Have I Been by Melanie Benjamin (Random House, December ) is a fictionalized historical biography of Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the woman who was as a child friends of Charles L. Dodgson (the man who later wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll). It was young Alice Liddell who begged Mr. Dodgson to write down his improvised story of a girl chasing a white rabbit to a fantastic wonderland.
First things first: I'm an author of an upcoming novel, ALICE I HAVE BEEN, which will be published by Delacorte Press in January, This is the story, in her own words, of Alice Liddell, who was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's timeless classic, and her lifelong struggle to escape, yet ultimately embrace, Wonderland. In Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin, we see her as an irrepressible child, then a young woman who falls in love with a prince, and finally a mother and wife. Alice I Have Been is an expertly woven story of Alice Pleasance Liddell's life that spans the Victorian era to the first World War. Alice I have Been by Melanie Benjamin is a Random House publication. After having read “The Swans of Fifth Avenue”, I was eager to discover some of Melanie Benjamin’s other novels. I had heard some talk about “The Aviator’s Wife”, and so I read that one first, and was impressed with it as well.
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