Victoria Through the Looking Glass

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Fiction: Lewis Carroll is the nom de plume of the Reverend Charles Dodgson, born in 1832, Don of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1855 to 1898. As Charles Dodgson, he wrote mathematical treatises, books on logic and invented mathematical games. As Lewis Carroll he wrote poetry, Sylvie and Bruno, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass. These are fantastic stories with a strange logic about the experiences of a little girl lost in a fabulous country of humorous horrors and nonsensical surprises.In Victoria Through the Looking-Glass, Mrs. Lennon has endeavored to find how it happened that a shy, awkward, meticulous mathematics teacher produced as his chef-d'oeuvre, a whimsical account of a little girl's adventures in an enchanted garden.A student of Freud, Mrs. Lennon has searched for her answers in Dodgson's early environment, in the years of his adolescence, and finally in the Victorian atmosphere in which as an adult he worked. Read more

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