Lewis Carroll rules! As someone with an Literature degree, it should carry at least a little weight when I say Alice in Wonderland (which is actually two books) is the best book ever written. It is timeless, and never fails to impress or entertain me.

The concern about Carroll's pedophilia is in line with our modern sensibilities, but his preferences were not out of place in his own times - when the (not yet) Bishop of Canterbury could propose to a twelve-year old, and nary a complaint.

Great author, indeed - and talented in many more fields

Does this mean that we should embrace Carroll, just as Hollywood has embraced J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan (Finding Neverland)?
This movie seems to have left out a major part of that author's life, namely his fascination with young boys.
By your accord, we should excuse Michael Jackson, Barrie and Carroll and anyone else because they are extremely talented, are geniuses or during their lifetime the world wasn't civilized enough to realize how morally wrong their lusts would lead them.
Praise the stories not the man.

Ah - I expected the comparisons - I did not excuse this element of his life. It may have been a motive force for his creativity, and was morally wrong. In fact, it was probably the main reason he did not take up the cloth, as it were. He knew he was tormented by these demons, unlike, say, Michael

The contradictions exist in these people's lives - do with them what you will.

You are all losing track and making very serious accusations which I think are totally baseless. The Alice in the book was a real life girl, Alice Little. She was the daughter of a good friend who used to accompany them on picnics.

Sure Dodgeson (pen name Carrol) was a strange fellow with a great imagination... that doesn't make him a pedophile. If you are to use that same rule of them (that creators of children's art are all pedophiles), then eveyr single employee of the Disney corporation should be charged and hung.

This discussion of Carroll as a pedophile is pretty out of date isn't it? The newest research shows that the whole image of his so-called 'obsession' with small girls was created almost entirely (and almost accidentally) by biographers and dreamers anyway.
See the 'Looking for Lewis Carroll' website which had the latest research from the best writers on Carroll

Thanks Mike - great website.

Everythings been said about this tiresome subject and little of it made sense anyway by applying todays morals and politically correct thinking to what happenned well over a century ago.
No one seems to have realised that Dodgson/Carroll would have been impotent thus a threat to nobody

If impotence or virginity were a bar to pedophilia, Michael Jackson wouldn't be in the trouble he's in.

Whether or not Dodson (or Barrie, for that matter) ever consumated their lusts, that they experienced a sexual urge toward children is part of the historical background of these men.

Just wanna add a suggestion:

Alice in Wonderland by Abelardo Morrell

Beautiful and brilliant, it belongs in every Alice fanatic's collection.

PS: re - alleged pedophilia -- get a life, morons.

xxoo
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