Books like The story of Alice by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

A curious young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a topsy‑turvy world of anthropomorphic creatures, where she encounters whimsical logic and nonsensical adventures.

Alyss Heart, heir to Wonderland’s throne, flees the murderous Queen Redd, is separated from her protector Hatter Madigan at the Pool of Tears, and finds herself in Victorian London, where she must reclaim her kingdom.

Henry James’s annotated correspondence reveals the mind of a master novelist, offering insights into his works, literary craft, and views on sex, politics, and friendship through letters to writers, artists, and leaders.

Discover the life of Charles L. Dodgson—pen name Lewis Carroll—whose mathematical mind and Oxford professorship inspired the timeless adventures of Alice and the characters of his whimsical tales.

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Richard Holmes's award‑winning first volume of his Coleridge biography offers a richly illuminated portrait of the Romantic poet and philosopher, exploring his literary genius, personal complexities, and influence on 19th‑century English literature.

Claire Harman's biography of Fanny Burney introduces us to the artist who revolutionized English literature and captivated the hearts and minds of critics and readers alike.

We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail--the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person--what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did--despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life. In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it. We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail, but previous books have ignored the real person-- what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did. Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, and answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. -- adapted from jacket.