Lewis Carroll

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Carroll, Lewis

(pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). Born Jan. 27, 1832, in Daresbury; died Jan. 14, 1898, in Guildford. English writer. A professor of mathematics at Oxford University from 1855 to 1881, he devoted most of his attention to mathematical logic.

Carroll wrote the fairy-tale novella Alice in Wonderland (1865; Russian translation, 1923) and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass (1871; Russian translation, 1924), which became beloved children’s books. His subsequent literary endeavors were unsuccessful. Writing ironically about the clichés in the tradition of “nonsense poetry,” Carroll at the same time presented a mocking depiction of late Victorian England in Alice. A visit to Russia in 1867 led to his book A Russian Diary.

WORKS

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems. London, 1869.
The Humorous Verses. London, 1950.
The Diaries of Lewis Carroll, vols. 1–2. London, 1953.
In Russian translation:
Alisa v strane chudes. Sofia, 1967.

REFERENCES

Vazhdaev, V. “L. Keroll i ego skazka.” Inostrannaia literatura, 1965, no. 7.
Kharitonov, V. “Ser’eznye chudesa.” Novyi mir, 1969, no. 1.
Lennon, F. B. The Life of Lewis Carroll. New York, 1962.
Sutherland, R. D. Language and Lewis Carroll. The Hague-Paris, 1970. (Bibliography, pp. 236–238.)

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