This is a great reading for anyone who loves Russian classics. It combines the unique Nabokov's style with the wonderful plot of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece. Don't expect to see the exact translation of Carroll's book, rather consider it as a "variation on the theme" of "Alice in Wonderland". Take a book, a cup of tea, spend the time with favourite and funny Carroll's heros in the magic country of Carroll-Nabokov.

I've been waiting for this very book for quite some time now. Carroll's photography has never been collected in a full form like many other photographers. Previous books have been light on material and all too heavy on the photographs of young child-friends. This book gives a more even account of Carroll's photography---even going so far as presenting the photographs as he did so in his own albums. Rather than classify his photographs, his albums show a wondrous variety of images---a skeleton of a fish, a landscape, a child-friend, a famous painter, a sculpture, etc.... Though it concentrates on Carroll's one hobby, Roger Taylor's essay is as good as any biography, being a hundred or so pages long. Edward Wakeling contributes insightful captions to each photograph in the Princeton Collection---for all are included! What more could one ask for? Wakeling, one of the leading experts on Carroll with a database of information, even offers his list of all photographs taken by Carroll, a list that will be continually updated. He even gives his email address for those who may have lost photographs.
An indispensable book for the researcher and a delight for the casual photography fan.

This is a book worth special ordering... Jean Gattâegno does an stunning job at analizing the man we know as Lewis Carroll. Every detail- nothing left unsaid- great format with tons of references- and it comes with line drawings and pictures. This book is for Lewis Carroll fanatics or people just wanting to learn about our famous Charles Dodgen.

Lewis "Buck" Crook was my grandfather. For me, my brothers, my cousins, and the rest of my family, the Crook Book, as it is affectionately known, is a great source of pride. I developed a web site dedicated to the life and work of Buck Crook. A number of pictures from the Crook Book are featured there.

While at work in the college library, I passed by this book. I flipped through the pages, thinking I'd only take a brief look. I realized that I had seen these photographs before, and I became fascinated. I learned so much about the photographer through this book. It is a fine collection of Hine's work overall. It shows classic photos from everything he became involved in, such as child labor, women at work, and the working poor.

Set in England in the late 1950's, Lewis Percy is a book one will never forget. When we first meet the protagonist of our story, Lewis Percy is a student of literature in Paris. He enjoys the company of an odd assortment of women in the boarding house in which he stays. Having grown up without the advantages of a father figure, he grew to admire women very much, obviously as a result from his deep attachment to his mother and her loyal, quiet encouragements. When she passes away he is lost in the world and his transformation from careless student to grieving man is a process for which he is not ready and has no tools. He has lived the isolated life of a man deep in study and high moral values. The usual enjoyments of young men his age did not cross his path and if they did he would not have known how to partake of them.

He is deep in depression when he comes across an agoraphobic young lady whom he decides he will save from her disablity while she saves him from his loneliness. His marriage to her gets off to a good start but soon lives up to it's innate destiny - he feels more lonely and she is again afraid to leave home. They divorce but she is never quite out of his heart. When he discovers she is about to have a child, he lives for his nightly visits to her, when he is begrudgingly allowed to read a bedtime story to his child.

Thus his life goes on with the routine of now working in a library and the one happiness he has of visiting his child. Until a surprising person comes his way and wakes up a passion long dormant in this thoughtful young man.

The book examines the internal dialogues of this man who is at once lonely but at the same time sees a potential for joy in the world. His only problem is that he doesn't quite know how to fit in and enjoy life like others seem to be able to do so freely. For this reason, one could admit that there is a little bit of Lewis Percy in all of us. Thus, he becomes such a compelling character and we find ourselves rooting for him up until the end.

The book is a bit hard to get into at first, but if one sticks with it one will find it a rewarding experience and this character will remain with you for a long time ever after.

I didn't agree with every thing . but if Lewis Wetzel's name is there. I will buy!!!

It's been over thity years since I've read this. As a child it was spell binding. Full of suspense and intrigue, I could'nt put the book down until it was finished! As it was, it required a written letter and several phone calls from our hometown librarian to demand the return of this publication back to the library!
As it turned out,a Lady in the vicinity,(who happened to be a direct descendant of Lewis Wetzel) refused to hand over the book.There was only one copy of this publiction
in our library. So I to wait like, almost an eternity to read this book!

I heard about this book from a friend who is both a comic book editor and the father of a five year old. His child enjoyed the book. Any adult I have shown the book off to has also been captivated. I was particularly impressed with the fact that Trondheim managed to produce such a fun and inventive take on the old Santa Claus tale.

Are you enthralled by Hornblower? Does Sabatini make your heart sing. Do you live to see Errol Flynn swing onto a foes ship? Well if you do get ready for a healty dose of reality with LIFE BEFORE THE MAST.

Most of the naratives in this book are written seamen or ratings (with the occasional Nelson & Porter thrown in) they give the real story behind a life both boring and terror filled.

This book gives the readers the story they've never heard, from the press gangs to the laundry this book tell it as it was.

It is fine history written by ordinary men facing life as they knew it before the mast. Can't recommend it enough.