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 ...

This slick version of the classic nonsense poem from Through the Looking Glass seems more a Disney souvenir than a book to snuggle up with. Angular textural sketches, apparently rough drafts for an ...

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 ...

"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 Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the ...

To recall my first meeting with the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, or — as he was familiarly known to the world — ‘Lewis Carroll,’ I must, I regret to say, go back fifty-eight years. But, though I ...