Agony of Lewis Carroll

In 1867 Lewis Carroll told a child friend that his story ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, published two years earlier, was about "malice." This book reveals for the first time what he meant by that description, & why it was not just a coy play on words. For deep in the nonsense of his children's books Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the man behind the pseudonym, coded revelations about the origins & nature of the fury that seethed within him - a rage directed at his parents, family, & society. And he buried with those revelations the means of expression that he would use to gain revenge on the nearly total annihilation of a fragile self that he experienced in childhood & public school. This book is neither children's reading nor for the faint-hearted. For it is not just about anger, but about unbridled rage. It is about hypocrisy & its handmaiden, alienation; it is about homosexuality & intolerance. And it is about child abuse & the so often silent cry of its victims: "I hurt!" Charles Dodgson was such a child, cried out in his works, & is finally heard.Wallace, Richard is the author of 'Agony of Lewis Carroll' with ISBN 9780962719554 and ISBN 0962719552.