Lewis Carroll

Easton Press Lewis Carroll books

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - 100 Greatest Books Ever Written - 1977

Through The Looking Glass - 1995

Through The Looking Glass - The Collector's Library of Famous Editions - 2004

 

Two volume set including:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Through The Looking Glass

Franklin Library Lewis Carroll books

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - 100 Greatest Books of All Time - 1975

Alice in Wonderland and other stories - Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers - 1983

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - World's Best Loved Books - 1981

The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland - Oxford Library of The World's Greatest Books - 1981

 

 

About Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Victorian-era author, mathematician, logician, and photographer. Born on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, England, Dodgson spent much of his life working at Christ Church, Oxford, where he excelled in mathematics and developed a keen interest in the world of imagination and storytelling. Dodgson's most famous works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). These iconic stories were initially told to Alice Liddell and her sisters during a boat trip on the Thames River in 1862. The tales, filled with whimsical characters, fantastical events, and wordplay, became classics of children's literature, beloved by readers of all ages.

Lewis Carroll poems

Lewis Carroll was not only known for his whimsical and imaginative prose in works like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, but also for his playful and clever poems. A few notable Lewis Carroll poems include Jabberwocky (from Through the Looking-Glass) Perhaps Carroll's most famous poem, Jabberwocky is known for its nonsensical and inventive language. It tells the story of a young boy slaying the fearsome Jabberwock. The Walrus and the Carpenter (from Through the Looking-Glass) This poem is recited by Tweedledee and Tweedledum to Alice. It's a narrative poem about a Walrus and a Carpenter who invite oysters to take a walk, only to consume them in the end. The Hunting of the Snark is a longer narrative poem by Lewis Carroll, describing a bizarre and humorous "snark" hunt. The poem is known for its wordplay and absurdities. You Are Old, Father William (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) This poem is recited by Alice to the Caterpillar. It's a parody of The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them by Robert Southey.

In addition to his literary pursuits, Dodgson was a talented mathematician and logician. He wrote various works on mathematics, including The Fifth Book of Euclid Treated Algebraically (1858) and An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations (1867). Lewis Carroll's fascination with logic and language is evident in his contributions to the field of symbolic logic. His logical works, such as The Game of Logic (1887) and Symbolic Logic (1896), demonstrated his ability to simplify complex concepts and make them accessible to a wider audience.

Lewis Carroll photography

In addition to his writing, Dodgson was an amateur photographer, capturing portraits of notable figures of his time, including Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ellen Terry. His photographs, particularly those featuring children, are considered significant contributions to early photography. Carroll is perhaps best known for his portraits of children, including those of the Liddell sisters—Alice, Lorina, and Edith. The famous "Alice" of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice Liddell, was a frequent subject of Carroll's photography. His photographs often captured the playful and whimsical spirit of childhood. Carroll used the collodion wet plate process, a common photographic technique of the time. This process involved coating a glass plate with a mixture of collodion, silver nitrate, and other chemicals just before taking a photograph. The exposure had to be made while the plate was still wet, requiring a portable darkroom for on-the-spot development. While Carroll is most famous for his portraits of children, he also photographed adults, landscapes, and still life. His photographs often demonstrated a keen sense of composition and an experimental approach, capturing a range of subjects.

The Begun Album is a collection of Carroll's photographs and is one of the few surviving albums of his work. It includes portraits of family members, friends, and other individuals. The album is a valuable historical document, providing insights into the people and social conventions of the Victorian era. Despite being an amateur photographer, Carroll's contribution to the world of photography is recognized and appreciated. His photographs are considered both artistic and historically significant. His approach to capturing the essence of childhood and his artistic use of composition continue to be studied and admired by photography enthusiasts. Some of Carroll's photographs, particularly those featuring young girls in various poses and costumes, have been a subject of controversy and speculation. However, opinions on the nature and intent of these photographs vary, and the controversy does not diminish Carroll's overall impact on the art of photography.

Lewis Carroll's photographs provide a fascinating glimpse into the Victorian era, showcasing both the technical aspects of early photography and the creative vision of a man whose artistic talents extended beyond the written word.

Throughout his life, Lewis Carroll maintained a close connection with children and enjoyed entertaining them with his stories, puzzles, and games. Despite his accomplishments, Dodgson was a private and somewhat enigmatic figure, and much of his personal life remains shrouded in mystery. Lewis Carroll passed away on January 14, 1898, in Guildford, Surrey, England. His legacy endures through the timeless appeal of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, which continue to enchant readers and inspire adaptations in various forms of media. Carroll's contributions to mathematics and logic further solidify his lasting impact on both literature and intellectual pursuits.
 

 

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Alice In Wonderland is a story for children by the English mathematician and author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pen name Lewis Carroll, and published in 1865. The story was originally composed for Dobgson’s young friend Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Christ Church, Henry George Liddell. On its publication, with illustrations by the English artist Sir John Tenniel, the work immediately became popular as a story for children; subsequently however, its ingenious mixtures of fantasy and realism and irony and absurdity made it almost equally appealing to adults. In 1871 Lewis Carroll wrote a sequel, Through the Looking Glass, which attained popularity equal to that of the earlier book. The two works are generally grouped together in the minds of their readers, and are frequently printed as a single volume. 

 

Each story in Alice In Wonderland is an account of a dream of Alice, a young English girl. In the first dream, told in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, she follows the white rabbit down a long hole into Wonderland. Here she meets with fantastic adventures at the hands, imaginatively drawn characters. Many of these characters have become familiar in everyday speech. The majority, including the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and the Dodo, are taken from the animal world; others, such as the King, Queen, and the Knave of Hearts, are personifications of playing cards. In Through the Looking Glass Alice steps through a mirror in her parlor to enter Looking Glass House. She becomes a piece in a game of chess, in which all the chessmen are alive, and meets such famous characters as Humpty-Dumpty and Tweedledum and Tweedledee. This book contains the well known poems Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter.

 

 

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastical adventure story for the young daughters of a friend. The adventures of Alice-named for one of the little girls to whom the book was dedicated-who journeys down a rabbit hole and into a whimsical underworld realm instantly struck a chord with the British public, and then with readers around the world. In 1872, in reaction to the universal acclaim Alice's Adventures in Wonderland received, Dodgson published this sequel. Nothing is quite what it seems once Alice journeys through the looking-glass, and Dodgson's wit is infectious as he explores concepts of mirror imagery, time running backward, and strategies of chess-all wrapped up in the exploits of a spirited young girl who parries with the Red Queen, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and other unlikely characters. In many ways, this sequel has had an even greater impact on today's pop culture than the first book.