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Bezig met laden... The Life and Letters of Lewis Carrolldoor Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Frankly: this biography is a piece of crap. Just the family cashing in before anybody else could. ( ) So great was the success of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass that, the moment author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) died in 1898, it was clear that there would have to be an autobiography. Indeed, one of Lewis Carroll's child friends, Isa Bowman, began almost at once to compile her own memoirs. But the close-knit Dodgson family intended to keep its secrets. Only one man -- Dodgson's nephew Stuart Dodgson Collingwood -- was authorized to see his papers. Collingwood hurriedly compiled this book, the only "authorized" Lewis Carroll biography. Authorized, but hagiographic, incomplete, and maddening. It does not truly represent a biography of Lewis Carroll. It is a series of sketches which do not make a whole. No one can truly understand the strange, tortured, mystical, creative author of the Alice books based on this work. We will never really understand Dodgson. But if you want to try, this is not the place to start. Start with a modern biography -- Cohen's or Clark's or Woolf's. If, having read several of the recent books, you are still interested, then try Collingwood. After all, Collingwood had access to a number of sources since destroyed. But be aware: While what it says can usually be trusted, what it leaves unsaid cannot. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Published in 1898, just months after the death of Charles Dodgson (1832-98), the Oxford don better known by his pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, this biography investigates the imaginative genius of the writer, mathematician and photographer. Carroll's nephew, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, had access to his subject's private papers and thirteen volumes of his private diary. He draws upon these materials in this memoir of the man who revolutionised writing for children, presenting a detailed account of Carroll's family origins, his eccentricities, artistic life, unorthodox friendships and his special skills in word-play and fantasy. Illustrated with photographs of Carroll himself and the key people and places in his life, the book, dedicated to 'all who love his writings', was the only complete biography for over thirty years. The first edition sold out within a week, a testament to Carroll's significance in the world of late-Victorian literature and culture. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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