Lewis Carroll (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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Before and after writing his novels for children, Lewis Carroll published volumes in his primary vocation, mathematics: A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry, Systematically Arranged, with Formal Definitions, Postulates, and Axioms (1860), An Elementary Treatise on Determinants (1867), Curiosa Mathematica (Part I, 1888; Part II, 1893), and Symbolic Logic, Part I: Elementary (1896). His gift for light verse, demonstrated in his novels, also led to four books of poems, with some duplication of content: Phantasmagoria: And...

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