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Enduring, Endearing Nonsense

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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