The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

by Lewis Carroll (Author)

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Series: Alice's Adventures (Omnibus 1-2, plus extras)

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I can't believe children could understand this. We are so stupid today. Alice In Wonderland was very enjoyable. I'm glad I chose to read this classic. I have some other children's stories in mind. I still have to read the second part though. (

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campingmomma | Feb 23, 2011 |

Alice in Wonderland: this story still has to sink down. I loved it, it is very creative and fantastic, but I think I need to reread it. (

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JKoetsier | Jul 13, 2010 |

Book Description: Chancellor 1983. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Reprint edition. Binding is Hard Cover. A complete facsimile of the original published in 1889.

Czrbr | Jun 7, 2010 |

I read /Through the Looking-glass/ first from this volume (and that's all I've read from this particular edition). I'm not sure if it was this particular edition, however—I just know that it had the same cover, only it had yellowed some with age. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Carroll, Lewis	Author	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Green, Roger Lancelyn	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Tenniel, John	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded by Lewis Carroll

The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

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Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

Feeding the mind by Lewis Carroll

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Alice's Adventures (99.30|Omnibus 1-2, plus extras)

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The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

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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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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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The Walrus and the Carpenter

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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0517147815, Leather Bound)

This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.

Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.

Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection.

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Lewis Carroll is best known for his two books about Alice, but he was a prolific author of fantasy and nonsense verse which are included here, together with his early verse, prologues to plays, notes and other poems.

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