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ENDURING, ENDEARING NONSENSE by Andrew

Green Did you read and enjoy Lewis Carroll's Alice in

Wonderland books as a child? Or better still, did you have

someone read them to you? Perhaps you discovered them

as an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven't

discovered them at all! Those who have journeyed Through

the Looking Glass generally love (or shun) the tales for their

unparalleled sense of nonsense . Public interest in the

books--from the time they were published more than a

century ago--has almost been matched by curiosity about

their author. Many readers are surprised to learn that the

Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and a host of other absurd

and captivating creatures sprung from the mind of Charles

Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy, stammering Oxford mathematics

professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor,

and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus

the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared

quite casually one day as he......

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