The Looking Glass Wars and names related by Alice to the author, whom she had requested to make a book of her personal history. The theme of this book is loss of innocence. The book's prologue tells of Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson showing Alice Liddell (who claims her name to be spelled 'Alyss') the manuscript for Alice's Adventures Underground. Alyss is shocked by the book's contents and refuses to speak to Dodgson ever again. The story then begins many years earlier, on Alyss' seventh birthday in the Wonderland of Alyss' memory, which is ruled by imagination and is the source of all imagination for
Charles Webb (author) Charles Webb (author) Charles Richard Webb (born June 9, 1939) is the author of several novels, and is mainly known for his most famous work, "The Graduate" (1963), which was made into a film of the same name (1967). Webb was born in San Francisco, California. He grew up in affluent Pasadena, California. He attended Chandler School, Midland School in Los Olivos, California, and graduated from Williams College in 1961. He declined an inheritance from his father, a wealthy doctor. Webb lived for several years in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. As of 2006, Webb had been with his long-term partner Eve