LEWIS CARROLL Literary Classic Book Collection. Author Biography Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898) Lewis Carroll was born in Warrington as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, later taking the pen name of Lewis Carroll. His father was a country parson and Carroll had ten brothers and sisters.
Educated at home, the young Lewis Carroll was a precocious reader, and received a private education by the time he reached his teens. From schooling in Rugby, Lewis Carroll attended Christ Church at the same time, his mother passed away. Throughout his life Carroll suffered with stammering, although it was reported he could sing well. In 1857 he met John Ruskin, and developed friendships with Dante Rossetti and other pre-Raphaelite artist’s like William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millias. In 1865 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published, illustrated by the artist Sir John Tenniel. The book bought wealth and success, and was followed in 1872 by the sequel, Through the Looking Glass, published after the death of his father. Lewis Carroll remained a resident at Christ Church, Oxford until his death from pneumonia in 1898. Literary Classics contains 560 authors, and thousands of unabridged books.
The Lewis Caroll unabridged classic books, included on the Literary Classics CD are: - ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
- ALICE IN WONDERLAND
- SPIRITS IN BONDAGE
- SYLVIE AND BRUNO
- THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
- THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
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