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Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderlandand Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel's much loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other works of a humorous, witty, whimsical and nonsensical nature such as the mock-heroic nonsense verse 'The Hunting of the Snark', as well as dozens of other verses, stories, acrostics and puzzles, all of which are included in this volume. Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.… (más)
waltzmn: A "complete works" of an author is most meaningful when one understands the author. Understanding Charles Dodgson is very difficult; he was a strange, reclusive, highly intelligent man (very likely an autistic). Of all the many biographies, this one seems to come closest to telling who he really was, although it is surely not the last word.… (más)
In this magnificent collection of Lewis Carroll's complete literary writings, the reader will experience and enjoy the entire range of his talents: novels, stories, poems, and puzzles. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, as Carroll was actually named, created an enormous and enduring body of work among which are two of the best-known and best-loved children's classics, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. Both these books, however, are sophisticated enough and rich enough in symbolism to be appre ciated by adults. In fact, both adults and children have for generations reveled irn the word play, scratched their heads at the inverted logic, and marveled at the delight ful farce that define all of Carroll's works. This essential volume also includes, among many other pieces, The Hunting of the Snark, Sylvie and Bruno, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, and Three Sunsets and Other Poems-all lesser known but no less important writings.
The air of parody and satire, both political and social, that runs through Carroll's works is confirmed by his choice of illustrator, the incomparable Sir John Tenniel.
The characters that Tenniel drew are as unforgettable as the written descriptions. Just think of the unstable and unlucky Humpty Dumpty, the pudgy twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and that smile of the Cheshire Cat.
So, as Lewis Carroll said when he first thought up the story of Wonderland, travel straight down the rabbit hole "without the least idea of what is to happen afterwards," and discover an imaginative and bound- less other world.
Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym used by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was born in Cheshire, England, in 1832. He studied mathematics in college, and in 1854 was appointed mathematical lecturer at Christ Church College, Oxford. In 1865 he published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and in 1871 Through the Looking Glass. During all the time that "Lewis Carroll" was delighting children with his stories, C. L Dodgson was publishing scholarly books on mathematics, the most famous being Euclid and His Modern Rivals in 1879. He died in 1898. In the words.
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After lunch on July 4, 1862, Charles Ludwidge Dodgson, a thirty-year-old Oxford mathematics don and clergyman (later to become universally known as Lewis Carroll) met the three daughters of the dean of his college, Christ Church, for a boating excursion, up the river Isis.
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In addition to the works listed under "work-to-work relationships", this work includes "Early Verse", "Puzzles from Wonderland", "Prologues to Plays", "College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel", "Acrostics, Inscriptions, and Other Verse", "Stories", and "A Miscellany".
The edition of Carroll's works edited by Roger Lancelyn Green (1965) has the following contents, which are not identical with those of other collected editions: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Through the Looking-Glass -- A Wonderland Miscellany -- Bruno's Revenge, and Other Stories -- Sylvie and Bruno -- Sylvie and Bruno Concluded -- Letters to Child-Friends -- The Hunting of the Snark -- Rhyme? And Reason? -- Verses and Acrostics -- Three Sunsets, and Other Poems -- Notes by an Oxford Chiel -- Journal of a Tour in Russia in 1867 -- Original Games and Puzzles -- Feeding the Mind: Essays and Addresses.
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Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderlandand Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel's much loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other works of a humorous, witty, whimsical and nonsensical nature such as the mock-heroic nonsense verse 'The Hunting of the Snark', as well as dozens of other verses, stories, acrostics and puzzles, all of which are included in this volume. Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.
In this magnificent collection of Lewis
Carroll's complete literary writings, the
reader will experience and enjoy the entire
range of his talents: novels, stories, poems,
and puzzles. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,
as Carroll was actually named, created an
enormous and enduring body of work
among which are two of the best-known
and best-loved children's classics, Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel,
Through the Looking Glass. Both these
books, however, are sophisticated enough
and rich enough in symbolism to be appre
ciated by adults. In fact, both adults and
children have for generations reveled irn
the word play, scratched their heads at the
inverted logic, and marveled at the delight
ful farce that define all of Carroll's works.
This essential volume also includes, among
many other pieces, The Hunting of the
Snark, Sylvie and Bruno, Sylvie and Bruno
Concluded, and Three Sunsets and Other
Poems-all lesser known but no less
important writings.
The air of parody and satire, both political
and social, that runs through Carroll's
works is confirmed by his choice of illustrator,
the incomparable Sir John Tenniel.
The characters that Tenniel drew are as
unforgettable as the written descriptions.
Just think of the unstable and unlucky
Humpty Dumpty, the pudgy twins
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and that
smile of the
Cheshire Cat.
So, as Lewis Carroll said when he first
thought up the story of Wonderland, travel
straight down the rabbit hole "without the
least idea of what is to happen afterwards,"
and discover an imaginative and bound-
less other world.
Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym used by
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was born
in Cheshire, England, in 1832. He studied
mathematics in college, and in 1854 was
appointed mathematical lecturer at Christ
Church College, Oxford. In 1865 he
published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and in 1871 Through the Looking Glass.
During all the time that "Lewis Carroll" was
delighting children with his stories, C. L
Dodgson was publishing scholarly books
on mathematics, the most famous being
Euclid and His Modern Rivals in 1879. He
died in 1898. In the words.