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Alice I Have Been

Melanie Benjamin

Hardcover | Pages: 345 pages

Rating: 3.64 | 13921 Users | 2394 Reviews

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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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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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Title	:	Alice I Have Been
Author	:	Melanie Benjamin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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

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Have you ever wondered what happened to the little girl who inspired Alice in Wonderland? I must be honest - I'm not sure I even knew that the real Alice had existed until I read the blurb for this book. But, yes, real she was. The real Alice lived until the age of 81, had married and had three sons. But where did it all begin?Alice I Have Been is fiction based on fact. The story is narrated by Alice herself and where no evidence remains, Melanie Benjamin takes artistic licence to fill in the

4 1/2 stars. This was a heartbreaking read but it was one of those books that I found myself drawn into and found it difficult to break myself away from when it was time to take the headphones off and return to reality. I have to admit, it has thrown me into a bit of a funk. Despite Alice's well to do lifestyle, her life was filled with disappointment, sadness , missed opportunities and loss. Most of it due to an event in her early childhood. The story of the real Alice who inspired Alice In

Hmmm. Historical novels about a specific person are always dicey for me, and this one did not work. Dodgson is seen now as someone who was at least in a form of arrested development, in love with childhood. Sometimes biographers have him as an out-and-out pedophile. The book tries to consider these possibilities from Alice's perspective, but it's unclear if her perspective is that of the 81-year-old Alice that bookends the story, or if it's a more straight version, where seven-year-old Alice is

Eh, 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

My apologies to everyone, but this review is full of SPOILERS and it is also ridiculously long. This is something I rarely do, but in this case I felt compelled to write both how I felt and why I felt it and the only way I could do so was to identify specific areas of the books plot that brought those feelings up front. I attempted unsuccessfully to hide the spoilers but they are everywhere. If you are highly interested in reading this book, please skip reading my Review until afterward so you

I loved this book. I won this as a pre-release from Goodreads, and I am thrilled it came to my doorstep. I started with a fascination with Alice in Wonderland and a slight knowledge that there was some mystery surrounding the relationship between Lewis Carrol and the real-life Alice. The book presents this mystery through the eyes of Alice in three different periods of her life. It is fictionalized, though I got the sense that Benjamin stayed true to the spirit of who Alice Liddell really was.

I enjoyed this book but I wouldn't recommend it if you really really love the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Whether you decide to take the author's liberties with the story at face value or not this book will forever change the way you look at Alice's story. It's difficult after reading this book to not view Carroll's novel in a different light; I can't unknown what I know now and that makes me sad.This novel tells the story of Alice Liddell Hargreaves, a real girl that inspired