Lewis Carroll: A Biography - Softcover

Cohen, Morton N

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679745629 ISBN 13: 9780679745624

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, 1996

Synopsis

Who was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the pioneer photographer, Oxford don, and mathematician who, writing as Lewis Carroll, gave the world the Jabberwock, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red Queen, the Hatter, the March Hare, and an unforgettable tea party? In this elegant, affectionate biography, Morton N. Cohen brings his singular expertise - gained from some thirty years' scholarship on Carroll as well as from special access to the Dodgson family documents - to the riddle of the quiet, stammering man who liberated children's books from the moralists and whose imagination brought forth some of the funniest nonsense, wildest characters, and most extraordinary cultural icons of modern times. What emerges is both an extraordinary work of scholarship and a portrait that is filled with admiration for Carroll's accomplishment, delight in his playfulness and charm, and sympathy for the self-reproach and emotional turbulence that underlay his apparently placid existence. A major literary biography.

About this title

Book Description:

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

From the Back Cover:

'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

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679745629
• ISBN 13: 9780679745624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 577