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Lewis Carroll is one of the world's best-loved writers. His
immortal Wonderland and delightful nonsense verses have enchanted
generations of children and adults alike. The wit and imagination,
the wisdom, sense of absurdity and sheer fun which fill his books
shine just as clearly from the many letters he wrote. '...each is a
miniature Wonderland... They reveal a truly delightful man...the
combination of intense goodness and unselfishness with a magic,
nonsense wit is unique'. The Scotsman '...a magnificent collection
of delightful and entertaining letters reflecting all that was
embraced in that remarkable character...all his charm, inventive
fun, wisdom, generosity, kindliness and inventive mind'. Walter
Tyson, Oxford Times.
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.
Lewis Carroll is one of the world's best-loved writers. His
immortal Wonderland and delightful nonsense verses have enchanted
generations of children and adults alike. The wit and imagination,
the wisdom, sense of absurdity and sheer fun which fill his books
shine just as clearly from the many letters he wrote. '...each is a
miniature Wonderland... They reveal a truly delightful man...the
combination of intense goodness and unselfishness with a magic,
nonsense wit is unique'. The Scotsman '...a magnificent collection
of delightful and entertaining letters reflecting all that was
embraced in that remarkable character...all his charm, inventive
fun, wisdom, generosity, kindliness and inventive mind'. Walter
Tyson, Oxford Times.
This volume contains almost all the letters that Charles Dodgson
(alias Lewis Carroll) wrote to his publisher during a professional
relationship that spanned the last thirty-five years of the
Victorian era, a time when the reading public expanded a
hundredfold, when the techniques of mass book production were being
shaped, and when laws governing copyright and bookselling were
first forged in the English-speaking world. Dodgson's
correspondence touched critically on all these issues, and is a
fascinating record of the contemporary evolution of publishing as
well as of the production and distribution of his own immensely
popular children's books and other works. At the same time it
charts the growth of the House of Macmillan from modest beginnings
to its status as a leading publisher. Professor Cohen and Professor
Gandolfo have provided a useful introduction and explanatory notes
to the letters.
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