Lewis Carroll: A Biography - Hardcover

Cohen, Morton N.

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9780333629260: Lewis Carroll: A Biography

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333629264 ISBN 13: 9780333629260

Publisher: Picador, 1995

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This biography traces the dual careers of Charles Dodgson, Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, who made important contributions to mathematics and logic and to the life of the University, as well as being one of the pioneers of photography in Victorian England, and of Lewis Carroll, creator of "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Hunting of the Snark", acknowledged masterpieces we still read today, and precursors of surrealist writing. The book contains a reappraisal of Carroll's Christianity, his relationship with his father, his literary forebears and the famous rift between Carroll and the Liddell family which broke the golden chain that bound Carroll to the Liddell children and in particular to Alice.

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Book Description:

The definitive biography of Lewis Carroll reissued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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'It is magnificent in scope and detail, and it emblazons afresh the astonishing facts of the Carroll case - that a fastidious, reserved Victorian maths don, on a boating trip with some little girls, made up a story that has changed our culture, has never gone out of print, has been translated into virtually every spoken language and is, with the Bible and Shakespeare, the most widely quoted book in the Western world' John Carey, Sunday Times

'Ample, authoritative and honestly affectionate' Guardian

'An unforgettably rich and moving portrait of an extraordinary man and a book, which, in its humane lucidity, forces readers to rethink the wider issues for themselves' Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph

'It is hard to believe that there will ever be a better book on the subject than this one. It has been meticulously researched and is notably well written.' William Trevor, Spectator

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