"Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the ...

A century ago, someone walked away from the senior common room of Oxford’s Christ Church college with its first-edition copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It was never returned. But the college ...

Just recently, my 7-year-old grandson, Ryan, thoughtfully announced, “It’s hard to spend a day without smiling.” That’s particularly true for any day in which one reads certain works by the Oxford ...

“Yellow Submarine” was written by McCartney and Lennon, and featured contributions from Scottish musician Donovan. The Revolver track was The Beatles’ attempt at creating a children’s song, and ...

In 1879, Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, published an odd little book called Euclid and his Modern Rivals (available for free at the Internet Archive). The object of this little book ...

A medley of games, riddles, rhymes and number problems, “Lewis Carroll’s Guide for Insomniacs” is the perfect companion for the wee hours when sleep won’t come. Adorned with a sprightly new ...

In a post dated May 26, 2024, the Facebook account Philosophical Rhythms shared an image featuring a quote attributed to Lewis Carroll, the author best known for the 1865 book "Alice's Adventures in ...