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Lewis Carroll

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born
in Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, England, The United Kingdom
January 27, 1832

died
December 14, 1898

gender
male

genre
Children's Books, Poetry, Literature & Fiction

influences
Edward Lear Leibniz, George MacDonald, Jonathan Swift


About this author

The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

He also has works published under his real n...more


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Lewis Carroll's Books

Average rating: 4.04 · 419,836 ratings · 10,602 reviews · 196 distinct works · Similar authors
Alice's Adventures in Wonde...
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Alice in Wonderland
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Through the Looking-Glass, ...
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The Complete Stories and Poems
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 12,349 ratings — published 1884 — 57 editions
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Alice's Adventures in Wonde...
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The Annotated Alice: The De...
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Jabberwocky and Other Poems
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 3,195 ratings — published 1977 — 24 editions
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The Hunting Of The Snark
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 1,844 ratings — published 1876 — 103 editions
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Alices Adventures Underground
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 1864 — 51 editions
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Sylvie and Bruno
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2 books)
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Quotes by Lewis Carroll

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Well, we had a tie between Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Daughter of the Forest for our May read. This is the run-off poll. Voting will be open through Saturday, April 21.

 
  9 votes, 60.0%

 
  6 votes, 40.0%

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