Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 January 1832
CityDaresbury, England
Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentile hand Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined In memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers Pluck'd in a far off land.
I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.
In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room
I know what you're thinking about, but it isn't so, nohow. Contrarywise, if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be. But, as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
They lived at the bottom of a well - . . . They lived on treacle.
The other Messenger's called Hatta. I must have two, you know - to come and go. One to come, and one to go.
Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
And thick and fast they came at last, / And more, and more, and more.
You are old,"" said the youth, ""and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray, how did you manage to do it? ""In my youth,"" said his father, ""I took to the law, And argued e
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.
Do cats eat bats? - Do bats eat cats?
Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot / Into a left-hand shoe.