[PDF] Lewis Carrolls Library eBook

Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9781851245321

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'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass' are two of the most famous, translated and quoted books in the world. But how did a casual tale told by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), an eccentric Oxford mathematician, to Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, grow into such a phenomenon?Peter Hunt cuts away the psychological speculation that has grown up around the 'Alice' books and traces the sources of their multi-layered in-jokes and political, literary and philosophical satire. He first places the books in the history of children's literature - how they relate to the other giants of the period, such as Charles Kingsley - and explores the local and personal references that the real Alice would have understood. Equally fascinating is the rich texture of fragments of everything from the 'sensation' novel to Darwinian theory - not to mention Dodgson's personal feelings - that he wove into the books as they developed.Richly illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, Sir John Tenniel's original line drawings and contemporary photographs, this is a fresh look at two remarkable stories, which takes us on a guided tour from the treacle wells of Victorian Oxford through an astonishing world of politics, philosophy, humour - and nightmare.

Author : Charlie Lovett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476609411

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--known better by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll--was a 19th century English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist. He is especially remembered for his children's tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. By the time of Dodgson's death in 1898, Alice (the integration of the two volumes) had become the most popular children's book in England. By the time of his centenary in 1932, it was perhaps the most famous in the world. This book presents a complete catalogue of Dodgson's personal library, with attention to every book the author is known to have owned or read. Alphabetized entries fully describe each book, its edition, its contents, its importance, and any particular relevance it might have had to Dodgson. The library not only provides a plethora of fodder for further study on Dodgson, but also reflects the Victorian world of the second half of the 19th century, a time of unprecedented investigation, experimentation, invention, and imagination. Dodgson's volumes represent a vast array of academic interests from Victorian England and beyond, including homeopathic medicine, spiritualism, astrology, evolution, women's rights, children's literature, linguistics, theology, eugenics, and many others. The catalogue is designed for scholars seeking insight into the mind of Charles Dodgson through his books.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781853268977

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Famed for his Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Caroll produced comic verse, puzzles and much more, all of which are included in this complete illustrated collection.

Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226041506

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An examination of Carroll's books about Alice explores the contextual knowledge of the time period in which it was written, addressing such topics as time, games, mathematics, and taxonomies.

Author : Margaret Sidney
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1557095914

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In New England in the late nineteenth century, a fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman and his young son.

Author : Lindsay Smith
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1780235453

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Though he’s known now primarily as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, in his lifetime Lewis Carroll was interested at least as much in photography as in writing. This book offers a close look at Carroll’s engagement with the medium, both as a creator and a collector of photographs. Lindsay Smith takes readers to the glass studio above Carroll’s college rooms at Oxford, where he created many of his striking portraits, and she also follows him into the field—on excursions to the theater in London, to the seaside at Eastbourne, and even to Russia. Smith also details Carroll’s enthusiastic work as a collector, in which role he arranged portrait sittings for photographers whose work he admired. Beautifully illustrated with a generous selection of Carroll’s work and that of other photographers of the period, this book gives fans of Carroll’s writing a new way to understand his creative genius.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060081392

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A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544348230

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Offers a fanciful celebration of the life, language, wordplay, and imagination in the works of Lewis Caroll.

Author : Angelica Shirley Carpenter
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822500735

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A biography of the mathematician, teacher, photographer, and author who wrote "Alice in Wonderland."