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Title: The Oxford Pamphlets, Leaflets, and Circulars of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll, Vol 1) by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Edward Wakeling, Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll Society of North America ISBN: 0-8139-1250-4 Publisher: University of Virginia Press Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $70.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

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Summary: Getting even deeper into Lewis Carroll
Comment: This is certainly not a book for the casual Lewis Carroll fan, but a book for the hard-core, already-own-the-complete-letters-and-diaries kind of fan. It's a fascinating look at Dodgson's Oxford writings, including many previously unseen by the public.

Charles Dodgson's Oxford writings are full of items that the average person, having not been to Oxford in the 1800's, might despair to understand, if it were not for the helpful explanations supplied by the editors of this collection. These explanations make these writings accessable, allowing us to explore a microcosm of collegiate life. Dodgson expresses massive displeasure with the architectural and staff changes going on at the college, often with satire so biting that you wonder how many friends he must have lost with these little publications.

There are also a couple more serious papers about doings at the college, followed by a tremendous amount of circulars about the common room at the college, which Dodgson was curator of. These circulars are very dry, sometimes amounting to no more than lists of wines in the cellars. These papers take up almost half the book, and present a problem: Surely every Lewis Carroll fan wants a complete collection of his writings, but is this simply too much? However, if they weren't included, the readers would be left wondering if there was anything worthwhile in these papers, and the answer is that yes, about 5% of these papers are worth reading.

Once again, this book is for the truly hard-core Carroll nut. If you enjoyed all the writings in, say, the Modern Library "Works of" Lewis Carroll, then you might enjoy this. But it is not for casual fans, especially at the gold-plated price of [money].