It is, after all, his (Dodgson’s) creation, and we owe him so much for it. Where I think Frank Beddor crossed the line was in casting Dodgson as a dissembling fool, if not indeed a creep, who betrayed Alice’s confidences, bowdlerized her true reminiscences, and got Wonderland all wrong. I expect some degree of originality, even to the extent of totally reimagining the concept. I’m not even upset by the fact that the author put a fresh twist on Carroll’s Wonderland. I’m all for “further tales” of already-established, richly imagined fantasy worlds. Lewis Carroll) in his classic Alice in Wonderland. What turned me off wasn’t the fact that it built on the fantasy world created by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. The first time I started to read this book, I didn’t get past the prologue.
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