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A WANDER THROUGH WONDERLAND New Lewis Carroll biography is clear as a looking glass

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19960107
Author:MICHAEL DIRDA

Lewis Carroll: A Biography. By Morton N. Cohen. Knopf. 577 pages. $35.

Near the beginning of this superbly researched and altogether engrossing biography of Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), Morton N. Cohen remarks that the two Alice books and the great nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark" are the most quoted literary works in English, excepting only Shakespeare and the Bible.

Once that might have meant something, but who today knows Shakespeare and the Bible?

In Wonderland, the Mock Turtle tells Alice, children learn "Reeling and Writhing," followed by "Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and ...

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