Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
New York: Avenel Books, C.1975.
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Very good hardcover. Later printing. Book is lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges lightly soiled, former owner's bookplate inside front cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Lewis Carroll
birth name: Charles Ludwidge Dodgson
born: 1/27/1832
died: 1/14/1898
Biography
English mathematician Lewis Carroll was born in Daresbury, Chesire. Although he suffered from a bad stammer, he was able to speak naturally and easily to children, who were very fond of him. During a picnic with the Liddell family he told them a story which one of the children, Alice Liddell, asked him to write down. The novelist Henry Kingsley happened to read the manuscript, given to Alice as a gift, and encouraged Carroll to publish it. Thus today we have Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.more