Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

2886 Pages·2011·94.88 MB·English

by  Lewis Carroll

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF
LEWIS CARROLL
(1832-1898)
Contents
The Novels
ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
SYLVIE AND BRUNO
SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED
The Short Stories
A TANGLED TALE
BRUNO'S REVENGE AND OTHER STORIES
WHAT THE TORTOISE SAID TO ACHILLES
The Poetry Collections
EARLY VERSE
PROLOGUES TO PLAYS
COLLEGE RHYMES AND NOTES BY AN OXFORD CHIEL
PHANTASMAGORIA AND OTHER POEMS
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS
PUZZLES FROM WONDERLAND
ACROSTICS, INSCRIPTIONS AND OTHER VERSES
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Selected Mathematical Works
SYMBOLIC LOGIC
THE GAME OF LOGIC
THE ALPHABET CIPHER
FEEDING THE MIND
The Biographies
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL BY STUART DODGSON COLLINGWOOD
LEWIS CARROLL IN WONDERLAND AND AT HOME BY BELLE MOSES
THE STORY OF LEWIS CARROLL BY ISA BOWMAN
© Delphi Classics 2011
Version 1

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF
LEWIS CARROLL
The Novels

Carroll’s birthplace - Hatton, Warrington
ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND

First published in 1865, this famous novel tells the story of a girl called Alice,
who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by anthropomorphic
creatures. The novel’s genre has been termed as literary nonsense, which has
had an enormous influence in literature, in particular on the fantasy genre.
Three years before the novel was published, Carroll, with friends, rowed in a
boat up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, the Vice-
Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church. The journey began
at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of
Godstow. During the trip Carroll told the girls a story featuring a bored little girl
named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The girls loved the tale,
particularly the ten year old Alice, who asked Carroll to write it down for her.
He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest
version no longer exists. The girls and Carroll took another boat trip a month
later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he
began working on the manuscript in earnest.
To add the finishing touches he researched natural history for the animals
presented in the book, and then had the book examined by other children to test
its merit. Carroll added his own illustrations but approached John Tenniel to
illustrate the book for publication, telling him that the story had been well liked
by children.
On 26 November Carroll gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice's
Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by himself, dedicating it as "A
Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day". But before
Alice received her copy, Carroll was already preparing it for publication and
expanding the 15,500-word original to 27,500 words, most notably adding the
episodes featuring the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Tea-Party. This later version
was to be called Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Both versions are presented
in this edition of Carroll’s works. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground contains
Carroll’s original illustrations.
The first edition front page