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Weary of her storybook, one "without pictures or conversations," the young and imaginative Alice follows a hasty underground - to come face to face with some of the strangest adventures and most fantastic characters in all literature. The Ugly Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat - each more eccesntric than the last - could only have come from that master of sublime nonsense, Lewis Carroll. In penning this brilliant burlesque of children's literature, this farcical satire of rigid Victorian society, this arresting parody of the fears, anxieties, and complexities of growing up, Carroll was one of the few adult writers to enter successfully the children's world of make-believe, where the heights of adventure are limited only by the depths of imagination. |
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Lewis Carroll (1832-98). Author of two of the bestknown and best-loved children's books ever written, Lewis Carroll is also remembered for his neologisms and nonsense rhymes.
Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He arrived at this pseudonym by translating his two first names back into English from Latin and reversing their order. Born the eldest of eleven children, he showed an early aptitude for writing and edited his own magazines to entertain the family. He was educated at Rugby soon after the school had been re-organized under Dr.Arnold and then at Christ Church, Oxford. He became mathematical lecturer at the same college from 1855 until his retirement in 1881. He was ordained as a clergyman in 1861, but held no benefice and rarely preached. He was a shy man who was handicapped by a stammer; his self-consciousness was lessened only in the presence of children, especially girls. Alice Liddell, second of the three young daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, was the greatest among these 'child friends'. On 4 July 1862 he and another took the sisters out boating, and Dodgson entertained his audience with a story which he called 'Alice's Adventures Underground'. This was to appear in print in 1865 as 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', accompanied by Sir John Tenniel's atmospheric illustrations. It was followed by 'Through the Looking Glass' (1872), relating the further adventures of Alice with pictures by the same illustrator. He also published the mock-heroic poem 'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876) and more sentimental 'Sylvie and Bruno' (1889). At the same time he was also the author of several mathematical treatises, of which the most influential was 'Euclid and his Modern Rivals' (1879). Queen Victoria was bemused, rather than amused, to recieve one of these, when after the success of the Alice books she gave him an audience and requested that Dodgson send her his next publication.
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