Screen LibraryWho was Lewis Carroll? /
"Meet the man who created Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematician and church deacon, who taught at Oxford University. He was inspired to write his best known works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Thr...
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Meet the man who created Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematician and church deacon, who taught at Oxford University. He was inspired to write his best known works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by one of the Dean's daughters, Alice Liddell. The books were hugely successful and brought Carroll wide acclaim, especially for the nonsense poems "Jabberwocky" and The Hunting of the Snark. Children and adults continue to be delighted by the fantasy of the Alice stories, which have |
| Carrier Form: | 107 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 107). |
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9780448488677 (paperback) : 0448488671 (paperback) 9780606405058 0606405054 |
| Index Number: | PR4612 |
| CLC: | K835.615.6 |
| Call Number: | K835.615.6/C319P |
| Contents: | Who was Lewis Carroll? -- Fun and games -- School days -- Life in Oxford -- Taking pictures -- A day on the river -- Alice in Wonderland -- Alice everywhere -- Russian Wonderland -- Through the looking glass -- Alice forever. |