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Lewis Carroll - The Man and his Circle (Hardcover)
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Lewis Carroll - The Man and his Circle (Hardcover)
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Bestselling author, pioneering photographer, mathematical don and
writer of nonsense verse, Lewis Carroll remains a source of
continuing fascination. Though many have sought to understand this
complex man he remains for many an enigma. Now leading
international authority, Edward Wakeling, offers his unique
appraisal of the man born Charles Dodgson but whom the world knows
best as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and Through the Looking-Glass. This new biography of Carroll
presents a fresh appraisal based upon his social circle. Contrary
to the claims of many previous authors, Carroll's circle was not
child centred: his correspondence was enormous, numbering almost
100,000 items at the time of his death, and included royalty and
many of the leading artists, illustrators, publishers, academics,
musicians and composers of the Victorian era. Edward Wakeling draws
upon his personal database of nearly 6,000 letters, mostly never
before published, to fill the gaps left by earlier biographies and
resolve some of the key myths that surround Lewis Carroll, such as
his friendships with children and his drug-taking. Meticulously
researched and based upon a lifetime's study of the man and his
work, this important new work will be essential reading for
scholars and admirers of one of the key authors of the Victorian
age.
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