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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 19960412
Author:Meir Ronnen

Meir Ronnen
Jerusalem Post
04-12-1996
LEWIS CARROLL, A Biography by Morton Cohen. London, Macmillan. 577pp. 25.

With the possible exception of the current video generation, no children's book has entranced young and old alike as much as Alice in Wonderland (and Through the Looking Glass). Like all great works of art, Alice is a mix of genius and magic. Its unlikely author, the Rev. Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), was a a pillar of rectitude, a deeply religious virgin with a penchant for the company of prepubescent girls.

Dodgson (1832-98), was the highly accomplished eldest son of an ...

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