The Original Unpublished Manuscript A..., Lewis Carroll
The Original Unpublished Manuscript A..., Lewis Carroll
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The Original Unpublished Manuscript Alice's Adventures Underground

Author: Lewis Carroll

Narrator: Eden Giuliano & The Icon Players

Unabridged: 1 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/17/2019


Synopsis

11-year-old actor Eden Giuliano presents a brand new line of exciting children’s stories from Icon!

This is the handwritten book that Carroll wrote for private use before being urged to develop it later into Alice in Wonderland. It was generously illustrated by Carrol and meant to entertain his family and friends. When a sick child in a hospital enjoyed it so much, the mother wrote him saying it had distracted her for a bit from her pain and led eventually to Carroll expanding the story. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church) : Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849); Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852); Edith Mary Liddell (aged 8, born 1853). The journey began at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of Godstow. During the trip the Reverend Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version no longer exists. The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest.

We know you will enjoy this very special series from Icon Audio Arts hosted by young Eden Giuliano!

Series Host Eden Giuliano

Series producer Avalon Giuliano in New York

Produced by Alex Franchi in Milan and Geoffrey Giuliano in Delhi

Edited and mixed by Macc Kay in Bangkok

Special thanks to Brandon Stickney & Sanjay Khemani

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF VRNDA DEVI

Music by AudioNautix

©2019 Icon Audio Arts (P)2019 Icon Audio Arts


About Lewis Carroll

English writer and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was especially known for his children's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Besides being classic children's entertainment, they are also distinguished for their satire and verbal wit.

The son of a vicar, Carroll was a precocious child who showed early interest in both writing and mathematics. He studied mathematics and was appointed to a lectureship at Christ Church, Oxford. Carroll continued studying and prepared for holy orders for almost thirty years. Although he took deacon's orders in 1861, Carroll was never ordained as a priest.

A shy retiring bachelor, Carroll was happiest in the company of children, and his favorite was Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of Christ Church. On a boating trip up the river Isis, Carroll told Alice and her three older sisters a story of "Alice's Adventures Underground," weaving into it many of the places and things they'd seen on their outings together. Alice was enchanted by the story and begged him to write it down. By the following February, Carroll had written a first draft and decided to publish it as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Although he wrote a wide range of other books, including many on the subject of advanced mathematics, he is best remembered for his children's classics.


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