Lewis Carroll






Lewis Carroll

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born
January 27, 1832

died
December 13, 1901

gender
male

place of birth
Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, England, The United Kingdom

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Children's Books, Poetry, Literature & Fiction


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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.


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Alice's Adventures in Wonderla... Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
avg rating 4.10 — 19,838 ratings — published 1865
209 editions
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Through the Looking-Glass and... Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll
avg rating 4.09 — 2,706 ratings — published 1865
139 editions
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The Annotated Alice: The Defin... The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
by Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner
avg rating 4.54 — 1,212 ratings — published 1871
17 editions
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Jabberwocky and Other Poems Jabberwocky and Other Poems
by Lewis Carroll
avg rating 4.06 — 591 ratings — published 1872
28 editions
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The Hunting of the Snark The Hunting of the Snark
by Lewis Carroll
avg rating 4.10 — 259 ratings — published 1876
39 editions
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The Complete Stories and Poems... The Complete Stories and Poems of Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll
avg rating 4.38 — 202 ratings — published 1976
34 editions
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderla... Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Pop-Up Book)
by Lewis Carroll, Robert Sabuda
avg rating 4.40 — 93 ratings — published 2003
3 editions
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Alice's Adventures Under Groun... Alice's Adventures Under Ground: The Story That Became Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
avg rating 4.22 — 89 ratings — published 1865
21 editions
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The Best of Lewis Carroll The Best of Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll
avg rating 4.27 — 84 ratings — published 1992
3 editions
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Sylvie and Bruno Sylvie and Bruno
by Lewis Carroll
avg rating 3.62 — 87 ratings — published 1889
14 editions
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
Lewis Carroll
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"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)
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"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'"
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