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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19960914
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LEWIS CARROLL: A PORTRAIT WITH BACKGROUND. By Donald Thomas. John Murray; 404 pages; Pounds 25

AFTER the compendious biography published last year by the Carroll authority, Morton Cohen, and another this summer by Michael Bakewell, readers might be forgiven for wondering-why another? And yet it could be argued that Lewis Carroll, or rather Charles Dodgson, was so odd a fish that the masses of material surrounding him-the thousands of letters, the nine volumes of diaries and scores of reminiscences-warrant several trawls.

Donald Thomas contends that Dodgson "is one of those ...

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