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What do you know about Lewis Carroll? Share your information with the others. B. See if you can answer these three questions about Carroll: 1) Was he a professional writer? 2) Was Lewis Carroll his real name? 3) Did he write both for children and for grown-ups? C. Read the text to find out if you were right. Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll was an unusual man who led three lives. One was the life of a mathematics don at Oxford University. He loved the subject he taught but his students found Carroll humourless and dry. In his second life he was a photographer, which was a rare hobby at that time. But he is best remembered as the author of the wonderful book that is read and enjoyed by children and grown-ups all over the world. The title of the book is “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. It began in July 1862. A 30-year-old Oxford don, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (that is Lewis Carroll’s real name) took out a boat and together with his friend Robinson Duckworth and three little girls, the daughters of a university colleague [?k?li: ?], had a river trip. They had tea on the river bank before returning. It was not an unusual event in itself. But the result of that journey was most unusual because during that journey Dodgson told the story that so interested one of the little girls, called Alice, that she asked Dodgson to write it down for her. Thus Dodgson created one of the best loved and most interesting children’s books under the pen name Lewis Carroll (a Latinized transformation of his first two names) . The book had great success. As soon as it was published, it became very popular. Altogether 180,000 copies were sold during Dodgson’s lifetime. Nowadays it is difficult to find a child who doesn’t know the book and its characters. As a famous author, Lewis Carroll had a lot of friends. When he was invited to parties, he entertained children with stories, games and puzzles. All through his life he enjoyed the company of children whom he loved and understood. He didn’t have a wife or his own children and often thought of himself as a lonely man. The history of literature remembers him as a one-book author. D. Write an outline of the text. Compare your outlines.

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