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The Mystery Of Lewis Carroll
Jenny Woolf
Discovering the Whiimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice in Wonderland.
St. Martin's Griffin
February 2011
On Sale: February 15, 2011
Featuring: Alice Liddells; Lewis Carroll
336 pages ISBN: 031267371X EAN: 9780312673710 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction Biography
Lewis Carroll was secretive and self contradictory,
revelling in double meanings, false reflections and
puzzles. From "Alice in Wonderland"'s first appearance in
1865, he shunned personal publicity, and used the
Victorian equivalent of "spin" to conceal himself from the
world. After his death, his huge family censored and
destroyed many private documents. This book shines a light onto the living, breathing,
unusual and sometimes exasperating human being that they
tried to hide. Although the elusiveness and strangeness of Carroll's
personality is acknowledged, he is shown as a real human
being who lived, breathed and had a life. The book contains a chapter on Carroll's personal bank
account - material discovered by the author. This
document, covering over forty years, casts hitherto unseen
and unconsidered light upon Carroll's life. The book also uses previously unpublished letters from
Alice's sister to help unravel the reason why Carroll's
friendship with the Liddell family came to an end. THE MYSTERY OF LEWIS CARROLL shows that Alice Liddell was
not the "Alice" of the books, although she was the reason
that they were written. •It gives clues to a secret which dominated (and in some
ways ruined) Carroll's personal life. •It shows how a man previously thought to be a minor
acquaintance got Carroll into major trouble - trouble
which was never mentioned in his diaries. •It illuminates and sets into historical context the topic
of Carroll's love of little girls, which, though unusual,
was not paedophiliac.
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Re: The Mystery Of Lewis Carroll
Read This book and I agree its cool (Julie Lane 9:51am March 16, 2011)
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