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Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thirty years in the writing and drawn from a voluminous fund of letters and diaries, this exemplary biography conveys both the imaginative fancy and human complexity of the creator of Alice in Wonderland. Photos.

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ISBN-13:	9780679745624
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/26/1996
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.93(h) x 1.52(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

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Abraham Cohen (1887–1957) was the editor of the Soncino Books of the Bible and participated in the Soncino translation of the Talmud and Midrash. Cohen is the author of Everyman's Talmud The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages, The Parting of the Ways: Judaism and the Rise of Christianity, and The Psalms.

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Biography of the multitalented author and mathematician. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

In his time, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was known to the world as an outstanding pioneer photographer of children, particularly of female children, as well as for being the author Lewis Carroll. One of Dodgson's "child-friends," Alice Lidell, served as the inspiraton for his literary Alice. These child-friend associations subjected Dodgson to public scrutiny, gossip, and suspicion concerning his emotional and sexual proclivities, suppressed though they may have been. Dodgson chose to "let them talk." Biographer Cohen (Lewis Carroll: Interviews and Recollections, Univ. of Iowa Pr., 1988) uses previously unavailable family and personal documents, diaries, and letters to show that the shy bachelor Dodgson, Oxford mathematics don and lecturer, held himself to the strictest of moral codes. While Lewis Carroll has been probed and analyzed by countless writers (see, for instance, John Pudney's Lewis Carroll and His World, 1976), this book is about the intimate and complex life of the man behind all those who lived on the other side of the looking glass. Recommended for all literature collections.-Robert L. Kelly, Fort Wayne Community Schs., Ind.

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An account of the life of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--the real name of the complex, fanciful, enigmatic, and unquestionably brilliant author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Cohen uses new-found letters and voluminous diaries to provide insight into Carroll's life: his passionate worship of little girls, his contributions to logic, his playfulness and charm, and the self- reproach and turbulence that underlay his apparently placid existence. B&w photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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