Lewis Carroll
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense.
Carroll in 1857
Lewis Carroll self-portrait c. 1856, aged 24 at that time
1863 photograph of Carroll by Oscar G. Rejlander
The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, including the poem "Jabberwocky"
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at Oxford University. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.
First edition cover (1865)
Page from the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, 1864
Three cards painting the white rose tree red to cover it up from the Queen of Hearts (Coloured Tenniel illustration)
Opening pages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan Publishers, London