Complete Works of Lewis Carroll PDF
Preview Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) Contents The Novels ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS SYLVIE AND BRUNO SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED The Short Stories A TANGLED TALE BRUNO'S REVENGE AND OTHER STORIES WHAT THE TORTOISE SAID TO ACHILLES The Poetry Collections EARLY VERSE PROLOGUES TO PLAYS COLLEGE RHYMES AND NOTES BY AN OXFORD CHIEL PHANTASMAGORIA AND OTHER POEMS THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS PUZZLES FROM WONDERLAND ACROSTICS, INSCRIPTIONS AND OTHER VERSES The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER Selected Mathematical Works SYMBOLIC LOGIC THE GAME OF LOGIC THE ALPHABET CIPHER FEEDING THE MIND The Biographies THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL BY STUART DODGSON COLLINGWOOD LEWIS CARROLL IN WONDERLAND AND AT HOME BY BELLE MOSES THE STORY OF LEWIS CARROLL BY ISA BOWMAN © Delphi Classics 2011 Version 1 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LEWIS CARROLL The Novels Carroll’s birthplace - Hatton, Warrington ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND First published in 1865, this famous novel tells the story of a girl called Alice, who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by anthropomorphic creatures. The novel’s genre has been termed as literary nonsense, which has had an enormous influence in literature, in particular on the fantasy genre. Three years before the novel was published, Carroll, with friends, rowed in a boat up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, the Vice- Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church. The journey began at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of Godstow. During the trip Carroll told the girls a story featuring a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The girls loved the tale, particularly the ten year old Alice, who asked Carroll to write it down for her. He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version no longer exists. The girls and Carroll took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. To add the finishing touches he researched natural history for the animals presented in the book, and then had the book examined by other children to test its merit. Carroll added his own illustrations but approached John Tenniel to illustrate the book for publication, telling him that the story had been well liked by children. On 26 November Carroll gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by himself, dedicating it as "A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day". But before Alice received her copy, Carroll was already preparing it for publication and expanding the 15,500-word original to 27,500 words, most notably adding the episodes featuring the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Tea-Party. This later version was to be called Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Both versions are presented in this edition of Carroll’s works. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground contains Carroll’s original illustrations. The first edition front page
Description:The list of books you might like
