Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Biographical note
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832–1898). — Mathematician and writer of books for children, son of a clergyman at Daresbury, Cheshire, was ed. at Rugby and Oxford After taking orders he was appointed lecturer on mathematics, on which subject he published several valuable treatises. His fame rests, however, on his books for children, full of ingenuity and delightful humour, of which Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel, Through the Looking-glass, are the best.
[From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910]
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Works
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / illustrated by Sir John Tenniel [1865] [ read | print | download ]
- Through the Looking Glass [1872] [ read | print | download ]
- Phantasmagoria and Other Poems [1869] [ PG ]
- The Hunting of the Snark [1876] [ read | download ]
- A Tangled Tale [1885] [ read | download ]
- Sylvie and Bruno [1889] [ PG ]
- Sylvie and Bruno Concluded[1893]
