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This monumental biography was prompted by Morton N. Cohen's belief that the Carroll revealed by the letters, diaries and works was not the same as the Carroll created by his biographers, and it was time to set the record straight. He 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 forging strong friendships with children, 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. No biographer has addressed so judiciously the inner divisions which proved such a creative spur to Carroll's imagination and his genius. The text is enhanced by over 100 of Carroll's photographs and drawings.
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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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- Publication date1996
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- ISBN 13 9780333660331
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- Number of pages592
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