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  • The Mystery of Lewis Carroll

    Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice in Wonderland

    by Jenny Woolf ...
    A biography of the enigmatic and beloved author of Alice in Wonderland .Foreword by Edward Wakeling, former chairman of the Lewis Carroll SocietyLewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self contradictory. He reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life. Journalist Jenny Woolf's The Mystery of Lewis Carroll shines a new light on the creator of Alice in Wonderl... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

    by Lewis Carroll ...
    'A work of glorious intelligence and literary devices . . . Nonsense becomes a form of higher sense' Malcolm Bradbury'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole . . . without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' to entertain a young girl. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to ... Read more

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  • The Narnian

    The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

    by Alan Jacobs ...
    The White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil -- all these have become a part of our collective imagination through the classic volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Over the past half century, children everywhere have escaped into this world and delighted in its wonders and enchantments. Yet what we do know of the man who created Narnia? This ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of Charles Dickens

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A "marvelous exploration" of Dickens's life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).An exceedingly rare talent and great orator, slight of build with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Charles Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at ... Read more

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  • The Alice Behind Wonderland

    by Simon Winchester ...
    In the summer of 1858 in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes and then snapped the camera's shutter. In The Alice Behind Wonderland Simon Winchester uses the famous photograph of Alice as the launching pad for an appreciative energetic and penetrating look at the ... Read more

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  • The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books)

    by Lewis Carroll ...
    Series Book 0 - The Annotated Books
    The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner.For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. His Annotated Alice, first published in 1959, has over half a million copies in print ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Murder

    How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

    by Judith Flanders ...
    "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated ... Read more

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  • C. S. Lewis

    A Biography

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis.C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the clever child from the ‘Little End Room’ of his Ulster childhood and adult life, exploring Lewis’s unwilling conversion to Christianity, the genesis of his ... Read more

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  • All My Road Before Me

    The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    A repackaged edition of the revered authors diary from his early twenties-a thought-provoking work that reveals his earliest thinking about war, atheism, religion, and humanity.While serving his country in the Great War, C. S. Lewis the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, and Christian apologist-made a pact with a close friend and fellow soldier. If one of them died, the ... Read more

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  • Murder Must Appetize

    by Mr H. R. F. Keating ...
    A monograph of Golden Age detective fiction from H.R.F. Keating, doyen of classic detective writers.Murder Must Appetize is an affectionate return to the halcyon days of the detective story when Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey were young and a touch of arsenic was still the ultimate deterrent. Apart from old friends like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie, we meet the less well remembered ... Read more

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  • Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis

    A Life of C. S. Lewis

    by George Sayer ...
    As I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called "Tollers" sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade."How did you get on?" he asked."I think rather well. I think he will be a most interesting tutor to have.""Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that," said the man, who I later learned was J. R. R. Tolkien. "You'll never get to the bottom of him."Over the next ... Read more

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  • The C. S. Lewis Collection: Biographical Works

    The Eight Titles Include: Surprised by Joy; A Grief Observed; All My Road Before Me; Letters to an American Lady; Letters of C. S. Lewis; and The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volumes I, II, and III

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    With his trademark warmth and wit, Lewis shares his biographical and personal faith journey with readers.Includes: Surprised by Joy A Grief Observed All My Road Before Me Letters to an American Lady Letters of C. S. Lewis The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume I The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume II The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume III ... Read more

    $89.99 USD