Morton N. Cohen
Lewis Carroll: A Biography.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition. 0679422986 xxiii/577 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 10", is bound in quarter black cloth and black paper-covered boards, with gilt-lettered red spine label. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is in mylar cover.
"Who was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the pioneer photographer, Oxford don, and mathematician who, writing Lewis Carroll, gave the world the Jabberworkc, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red Queen, the Hatter, the March Hare, and an unforgettable tea party? In this elegant, affectionate biography, Morton N. Cohen brings his singular expertise -- gained from some thirty years' scholarship on Carroll as well as from special access to Dodgson family documents -- to the riddle of the quiet stammering man who liberated children's books from the moralists and whose imagination brought forth some of the funniest nonsense, wildest characters, and most extraordinary cultural icons of modern times."