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Essay Galaxy - Alice in Wonderland: Enduring, Endearing Nonsense
Alice in Wonderland: Enduring, Endearing Nonsense
Did you read and enjoy Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books as a child? Or
better still, did you have someone read them to you? Perhaps you discovered
them as an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven't discovered them at
all! Those who have journeyed Through the Looking Glass generally love (or
shun) the tales for their unparalleled sense of nonsense .
Public interest in the books--from the time they were published more than a
century ago--has almost been matched by curiosity about their author. Many
readers are surprised to learn that the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and a host
of other absurd and captivating creatures sprung from the mind of Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy, stammering Oxford mathematics professor.
Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an invent....
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