Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll [0]
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Introduction
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
I - Down the Rabbit-Hole
II - The Poolof Tears
III - A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
IV - The Rabbit Sends in a LittleBill
V - Advice from a Caterpillar
VI - Pig and Pepper
VII - A Mad Tea-Party
VIII - The Queen’s Croquet-Ground
IX - The Mock Turtle’s Story
X - The Lobster-Quadrille
XI - Who Stole the Tarts?
XII - Alice’s Evidence
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE
I - Looking-Glass House
II - The Garden of Live Flowers
III - Looking-Glass Insects
IV - Tweedledum and Tweedledee
V - Wool and Water
VI - Humpty Dumpty
VII - The Lion and the Unicorn
VIII - “It’s My Own Invention ”
IX - Queen Alice
X - Shaking
XI - Waking
XII - Which Dreamed It?
A HIGHLY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
The literary life of “Lewis Carroll” became familiar to a wide circle of readers, but the private life of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was retired and uneventful. Born on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, where his father, the Reverend Charles Dodgson, was vicar, the author attended Rugby School for four years and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in May, 1850. He took first class honors in mathematics in 1854 and the following year was appointed mathematical lecturer at Christ Church, a position he held until 1881. Late in the year 1865, he published, under the pseudonym “Lewis Carroll,” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the “Alice” of the title being patterned after a daughter of Dean Liddell of the college. In 1869 came Phantasmagoria, in 1871 Through the Looking-Glass,in 1876 The Hunting of the Snark, and in 1883 Rhyme and Reason. During the years in which “Lewis Carroll” was delighting children of all ages, C. L. Dodgson was publishing mathematical works, the most famous of these being Euclid and His Modern RivaLs (1879). Though his authorship of the “Alice” books was well known, “Carroll” shied away from publicity, stating that “Mr. Dodgson neither claimed nor acknowledged any connection with the books not published under his name.” The reluctant author died in 1898. His memory is appropriately kept alive by perpetual endowment of a cot in the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street. London.
MARTIN GARDNER is a science writer who for twenty-five years wrote the “Mathematical Games” column in Scientific American. He is the author of some seventy books about mathematics, science, philosophy, and literature, including two novels and a collection of short stories. His Annotated Alice and More Annotated Alice have been combined into a single Annotated Alice. He has also written The Annotated Snark and edited The Universe in a Handkerchief, a collection of Carroll’s writings about recreational mathematics, puzzles, ciphers, word play, and games. He and his wife live in the western mountains of North Carolina.
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