Description
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. His most well-known novels include Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: What Alice Found There, but he was also famous for his poems, such as “Jabberwocky.” Carroll was a pioneer of literary nonsense, was a genre where rules are not broken but replaced with illogical systems. He operated under a rigid logic, but allowed his characters to operate in an absurd and paradoxical manner that made perfect sense within their own twisted systems.
Born into a high-church Anglican family, Carroll has immense academic success and followed in his father’s footsteps, attending Oxford University as a member of his father’s old college, Christ College. In completion of his academic fellowship, Carroll also served as a deacon briefly before beginning his literary career.
This is the second book by Lewis Carroll to be published in a Thornwillow Press series. Learn more about the first title, The Walrus and the Carpenter here.
