Lewis Carroll’s Guide for Insomniacs

by Lewis Carroll

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"'The dilemma my friends suppose me to be in,' writes the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 'has, for its two horns, the endurance of a sleepless night, and the adoption of some recipe for inducing sleep.' In this delightful book - the perfect gift for all insomniacs - are collected a splendid variety of entertainments devised to help pass 'the wakeful hours'. Ranging from puzzles, rhymes and limericks to simple number problems, calming calculations and planning dreams, here is a show more feast of intriguing activities guaranteed to keep you entertained as you search for the elusive rabbit-hole of a good night's sleep" -- show less

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Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen show more name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry
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828.809Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish miscellaneous writings1837-1899Individual authors
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PR4612 .G85Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature19th century , 1770/1800-1890/1900
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