Caryl

One of the many things that partially explain the undying fascination with Charles Dodgson (a.k.a., Lewis Carroll) are the numerous mysteries that swirl around him and fuel speculation and theories. Many of these are probably unsolvable, though Edward Wakeling has managed it for several of them over the years, at least to the satisfaction of many Carrollians. The author is equally fascinated with these mysteries and in this, his own fairytale, offers a theory that solves them all. The primary question he asks is: "Why did Lewis Carroll believe in fairies?" Using this key he offers answers to other mysteries, including: "Who really wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass? Why are the two Alice books so different? Why did he really choose the pen name of Lewis Carroll? Why is "The Walrus and The Carpenter" thrown into the middle of a chess game? Why did he waste the final years of his life writing the Sylvie and Bruno books? What were Dodgson's deathbed confessions / revelations to his sisters, who never revealed what he told them? Why did someone destroy and/or damage some of the volumes of his Diaries? Read on, dear reader, and open your mind to one possibility that is perhaps no less believable than many others...OK, perhaps impossible to believe before breakfast. It might take you until lunchtime.