Author: JENNY WOOLF
Title: The Mystery of Lewis Carroll
Description: St. Martin's Press, 2010. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 336. A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton`s all-star Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self contradictory. He reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life. Jenny Woolf`s The Mystery of Lewis Carroll shines a new light on the creator of Alice In Wonderland and brings to life this fascinating, but sometimes exasperating human being whom some have tried to hide. Using rarely-seen and recently discovered sources, such as Carroll`s accounts ledger and unpublished correspondence with the "real" Alice`s family, Woolf sets Lewis Carroll firmly in the context of the English Victorian age and answers many intriguing questions about the man who wrote the Alice books, such as: " Was it Alice or her older sister that caused him to break with the Liddell family? " How true is the gossip about pedophilia and certain adult women that followed him? " How true is the "romantic secret" which many think ruined Carroll`s personal life? " Who caused Carroll major financial trouble and why did Carroll successfully conceal that person`s identity and actions? Woolf answers these and other questions to bring readers yet another look at one of the most elusive English writers the world has known. ISBN: 9780312612986. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780312612986
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Title: The Mystery of Lewis Carroll
Description: St. Martin's Press, 2010. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 336. A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton`s all-star Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self contradictory. He reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life. Jenny Woolf`s The Mystery of Lewis Carroll shines a new light on the creator of Alice In Wonderland and brings to life this fascinating, but sometimes exasperating human being whom some have tried to hide. Using rarely-seen and recently discovered sources, such as Carroll`s accounts ledger and unpublished correspondence with the "real" Alice`s family, Woolf sets Lewis Carroll firmly in the context of the English Victorian age and answers many intriguing questions about the man who wrote the Alice books, such as: " Was it Alice or her older sister that caused him to break with the Liddell family? " How true is the gossip about pedophilia and certain adult women that followed him? " How true is the "romantic secret" which many think ruined Carroll`s personal life? " Who caused Carroll major financial trouble and why did Carroll successfully conceal that person`s identity and actions? Woolf answers these and other questions to bring readers yet another look at one of the most elusive English writers the world has known. ISBN: 9780312612986. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780312612986
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2150037
- Book number: 2150037
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