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The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Morton N. Cohen
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  • The letters are a treasure trove showcasing Carroll's wit and imagination

  • Cohen is probably the foremost Carroll scholar alive today

  • Publishing to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Alice stories, this is a wonderful addition to the Macmillan Alice™ Collection, and must-have for the Alice enthusiast

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-1
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  2. The Dodgson Family and Lewis Carroll’s Youth

    • Morton N. Cohen
    Pages 3-23

  3. Alice and Photography

    • Morton N. Cohen
    Pages 24-58

  4. Home at Guildford and Holidays at the Seaside

    • Morton N. Cohen
    Pages 59-120

  5. Curator of Senior Common Room, Christ Church

    • Morton N. Cohen
    Pages 121-212

  6. Last Years

    • Morton N. Cohen
    Pages 213-282

  7. Death

    • Morton N. Cohen
    Pages 283-283

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 285-303
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About this book

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.

Reviews

"...each [letter] 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

"In the letters as in the 'Alice' stories Carroll drew from a bottomless well of humour and nonsense" Sunday Times

"A glass key back into that wonderland to which he never lost the passport" Daily Mail

"...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" Oxford Times

"Carroll's letters to children are often just as good as the Alice books precisely because they stick the knife in; as you read them you sense that he was imagining and enjoying what the parents might be thinking. Playfulness is shadowed by danger and perversion, which is one reason you might want to play." London Review of Books

About the authors

MORTON N. COHEN is Professor Emeritus of English at the City University of New York. He has spent twenty years researching the letters of Lewis Carroll and was the editor of a two-volume edition of the letters published by Oxford University Press in 1979. He is also the author of Rider Haggard: His Life and Works and Rudyard Kipling to Rider Hagbgard: The Record of a Friendship.

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