
audiobook
by Belle Moses
LEWIS CARROLL
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. - THERE WAS ONCE A LITTLE BOY.
CHAPTER II. - SCHOOL DAYS AT RICHMOND AND RUGBY.
CHAPTER III. - HOME LIFE DURING THE HOLIDAYS.
CHAPTER IV. - OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP AND HONORS.
CHAPTER V. - A MANY-SIDED GENIUS.
CHAPTER VI. - UP AND DOWN THE RIVER WITH THE REAL ALICE.
CHAPTER VII. - ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND WHAT SHE DID THERE.
CHAPTER VIII. - LEWIS CARROLL AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in the quiet oak‑lined village of Daresbury, the future Lewis Carroll grew up amid a long line of clerics and scholars. His family’s modest, scholarly life and the chilly, wind‑blown parsonage of his ancestors gave him a keen eye for detail and a love of storytelling that would later turn ordinary river trips into voyages of imagination. Even as a child, he delighted in inventing fanciful worlds that offered an escape from the plain realities of Victorian England, hinting at the creative spark that would soon reshape children’s literature.
The biography follows his journey from that humble beginning to the moment he first set pen to paper, capturing the gentle humor and restless curiosity that defined his character. It explores how his talent for turning simple observations into extraordinary tales earned him a place in the hearts of generations, while also revealing the quieter, scholarly side of the man behind the famous rabbit hole. Listeners will come away with a richer sense of the person who gave the world a timeless adventure.
Language
en
Duration
~6 hours (380K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
Release date
2011-02-27
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
A prolific American writer of literary biography, remembered for bringing well-known figures like Lewis Carroll and Louisa May Alcott to life for general readers. Her surviving papers suggest a long, active writing career built on research, notes, and correspondence.
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