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The Complete Illustrated Works
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel's much loved drawings.
However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other wor...more
However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other wor...more
Hardcover, 934 pages
Published
October 19th 1982
by Chancellor Press
(first published 1884)
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This has turned into one of my, "at home" books; I dare you to take it into public. It's like bound spontaneous laughter.
"Well, now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?"
"Well, now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?"
The Compete Lewis Carroll is one of a very short list of books I've begun and couldn't get myself to finish. I derived no enjoyment from the book at a certain point and that is where I stopped (Sylvie and Bruno chapter 7). I realized for the last few chapters I had been wondering to myself "how much longer until this is book is done?!". When reading feels like an obligation and chore the book will always be shelved.
The Alice stories weren't terrible and themselves would have likely received a 2...more
The Alice stories weren't terrible and themselves would have likely received a 2...more
Capisco che per tollerare tutto questo nonsense bisogni essere abbastanza "slegati", come in effetti mi sento io.
Ma, anche in relativamente poche pagine, Carrol riesce a mettere un'intera esplosione di fuochi d'artificio verbali che, ogni volta che lo si apre, si scopre qualche nuova frase o spunto che ti era sfuggito magari solo un mese prima.
Cosa mi ha colpito di più? Adesso, l'irriverenza contro il potere, il far vedere quanto siano piccole le prepotenze di chi ci sta teoricamente sopra e q...more
Ma, anche in relativamente poche pagine, Carrol riesce a mettere un'intera esplosione di fuochi d'artificio verbali che, ogni volta che lo si apre, si scopre qualche nuova frase o spunto che ti era sfuggito magari solo un mese prima.
Cosa mi ha colpito di più? Adesso, l'irriverenza contro il potere, il far vedere quanto siano piccole le prepotenze di chi ci sta teoricamente sopra e q...more
I have to admit that I only read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass -- I tried to read the rest but sadly they didn't hold my interest as much as the two I picked the book up for in the first place.
I wanted to reread them for purposes involving work, so I was reading them with a particular slant and an eye towards mentions of fragrances, but I kept getting sidetracked with the logic puzzles and the fun poetry and the general amazing imagery that grabbed me as a child and has neve...more
I wanted to reread them for purposes involving work, so I was reading them with a particular slant and an eye towards mentions of fragrances, but I kept getting sidetracked with the logic puzzles and the fun poetry and the general amazing imagery that grabbed me as a child and has neve...more
I bought this book solely for Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and stopped reading after Through the Looking Glass although I may pick it up later on.
Reading this book makes me wonder how it would be interpreted by someone reading it 100 years ago and if it would have been as strange then as it is today. Carroll is a very imaginative writer and has so many characters that come from all over it really is fun to read is stories.
Reading Carroll’s writing made me think a little of...more
Reading this book makes me wonder how it would be interpreted by someone reading it 100 years ago and if it would have been as strange then as it is today. Carroll is a very imaginative writer and has so many characters that come from all over it really is fun to read is stories.
Reading Carroll’s writing made me think a little of...more
Apr 20, 2010
Thuraya
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Someone looking for a little nostalgia or just brushing up on the classics. And mothers.
Recommended to Thuraya by:
It's the selected April 2010 Book for The Richmond Book Club.
Shelves:
book-club-books
(at page 114)- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
I've just finished reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" which is the book being discussed at The Richmond Bookclub this month (April 2010). All I knew of this story was the Disney movie version and was excited to read the original tale.
There's no doubt that Lewis Carroll is a writer of wit and imagination--and I respect Alice's place within the realm of "The Classics"--but I found myself at times weary of its absurd and repetitive nature. And...more
I've just finished reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" which is the book being discussed at The Richmond Bookclub this month (April 2010). All I knew of this story was the Disney movie version and was excited to read the original tale.
There's no doubt that Lewis Carroll is a writer of wit and imagination--and I respect Alice's place within the realm of "The Classics"--but I found myself at times weary of its absurd and repetitive nature. And...more
This review will be sort of split up by section, since there's a wide variety of material in this book.
The book starts out with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Of course, this story is simply delightful. I'd read it before, and it's what made me figure I'd enjoy Carroll's complete works. It has just the right amount of nonsense, and the characters are simply delightful. And this is one of those books that was adapted to film so well that having seen the movie actually increases my enjoyment of...more
The book starts out with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Of course, this story is simply delightful. I'd read it before, and it's what made me figure I'd enjoy Carroll's complete works. It has just the right amount of nonsense, and the characters are simply delightful. And this is one of those books that was adapted to film so well that having seen the movie actually increases my enjoyment of...more
I read the Alice stories and on a number of occasions tried several of the others but found I couldn't do it. It's difficult to tell if the Alice stories are truly as good as we'd like to think or if the images have been so thoroughly impregnated into out brains through Disneyfication that we over rate their value. Not to mention Grace Slick's take on the tale.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Truly a wonderful story! Never read anything like it before, the characters are lovely and amusing, it is just wonderfully mad! The poems are lovely!
Through the Looking-Glass & What Alice Found There - Lovely poems and interesting story, don't quite like it as much as I did Wonderland, but perhaps one needs to understand chess to fully understand this story?
Through the Looking-Glass & What Alice Found There - Lovely poems and interesting story, don't quite like it as much as I did Wonderland, but perhaps one needs to understand chess to fully understand this story?
This volume will stay with me for my entire life. It was the first "grown-up" book I ever received -- as a gift from a stranger whose name escapes me. Whoever it was, they changed my life. Stepping into Carroll's world opened my mind to the possibilities of the human imagination, the concept of math as art, and interested me in the man behind the genius.
Nov 11, 2008
A
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
anyone who enjoys the work of Lewis Carroll
Shelves:
speculative-fantastic-magical,
2002
I consider the "Alice" books and Carroll's nonsense poems some of the greatest works in the English language. Viewing the full scope of his work in this hefty tome, it's difficult to say everything else reaches the same level, which is why I dock a star. The "Sylvie & Bruno" novels are interesting, more adult versions of his surreal fantasy with overt nods to fairy lore, but they oddly suffer from moralism and sentimentality. His early poetry is strikingly very Victorian and not always bad,...more
I bought this Barnes and Noble edition when it first came out and it has and off! It is now a mega rare book and very a beautiful one at that. It has all the stories in one big leather bound book with gold edged pages, a stamp and ribbon. I believe that the illustrations are the originals. The stories aren't dumbed down and I really enjoy them.
'If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'
Lewis Caroll's writing borders on bizarre, brilliant and complete nonsense. I enjoyed Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass but the rest of his work -Bruno et al- crosses too deep into the land of artistic nonsense and lacks any coherence or theme.
Though this works well in Alice's dreamlike world it just didn't captivate me as much in Bruno.
Lewis Caroll's writing borders on bizarre, brilliant and complete nonsense. I enjoyed Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass but the rest of his work -Bruno et al- crosses too deep into the land of artistic nonsense and lacks any coherence or theme.
Though this works well in Alice's dreamlike world it just didn't captivate me as much in Bruno.
I'll never forget the first time I read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There." I freaked out because I still had the Disney image in my head; I didn't expect it to be somewhat disturbing. I couldn't put it down and the rest of his works are just as good.
I'm finished... that is to say: I read the two classics at the beginning (Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass), but I didn't like them much (but it's good I've read them because of intertextual stuff). The tales and poetry after that were worse, so I stopped and now the book is waiting for another parent. I know many people do like Lewis Carroll, but to me it was only gibberish, so called 'funny' dreamish dialogues and bad word-jokes. Sorry if I hurt some readers, but that is what is was fo...more
Many think that this is a children's book but if children tried to read it I think they would be very confused. It is an abstract story and very intelligent, so do not base your knowledge of Alice in Wonderland by the disney movie, because it is a lot darker, complicated and better.
i bought this book, because me being a bookworm (=p) i feel in love with the leatherbound cover. the stories inside of it were just as great. the classic, alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass will live on for a loong time.
This book was really good. It was good to read the actual Alice books. I liked Through the Looking Glass better because of it's chess theme. I was familiar with The Hunting of the Snark (through the musical) so that was an interesting read as well. Then came some logic and mathematical puzzles most of which I didn't work out, but were still kind of fun. The book also contained some blah blah blah boring poems.
My favorite part of the book was reading Sylvie and Bruno, a fabulous tale of fairies a...more
My favorite part of the book was reading Sylvie and Bruno, a fabulous tale of fairies a...more
Magical- that's the only word that perfectly describes Carroll's work. Many don't like him because his plots are twisted and characters have outrageous tendencies, but if you can bunker down and give him the time, it is...well, magic.
Jan 10, 2012
Susan Jane McLeod
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
everyone
The Alice books are absolutely two of the best books ever written. Sylvie and Bruno, meh. Some of the poetry is too sentimental for me. But the nonsense poems are genius. The Hunting of the Snark is the funniest poem EVER!
Every graduate student must read "Sylvie and Bruno" so that when they are asked what "theory" is they can get up and utter the words "the map is not the territory" and actually understand where it comes from.
Fairly sure this is the copy I own. Don't think I read the whole thing, just Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and the Jabberwocky, but I don't quite remember.
Sep 05, 2011
Rob Wiltsher
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommended to Rob by:
Rosie Burridge (ex-girlfriend)
From the more well-known tales of Alice through to Sylvie and Bruno to the Hunting of the Snark to Phantasmagoria, classic writing that never fails to deliver.
ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE BOOKS.
Caps does not even come close to describing how much I love this collection of stories, poems and riddles.
I got this edition for Christmas... and oh is it pretty. All the illustrations, everything Carroll wrote, even some copies of his original Alice manuscript, handwritten. It is so pretty with its leather binding and its gold leaf. It is one of these books that is just... Ah... I sort of wish every book on my bookshelf looked like this one.
Meh. Lewis Carroll has never really been my idea of a good time, and I wondered if reading the complete works would change my mind. It hasn't. I can acknowledge the quality of his prose, the cleverness of some of his verse, but on the whole the subject matter treated and the way in which it is treated don't interest me much. Incidentally, lest I be thought a slave to fashion, I would like to point out that when I undertook to read the complete works of Lewis Carroll I was unaware of the big-budg...more
Reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the second time in a few years. I love the book and I love Lewis Carroll's style in writing
Sep 09, 2010
Max Scratchmann
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Anyone with a sense of humour
Forget the complete works of Shakespeare (actually, don't - it's great!) this is the omnibus you take to your desert island.
I love, love, love all things Lewis Carroll. His works don't always make sense and that's what I love about them
In addition to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, this book includes Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. Not as good as Alice, but if you’re a Lewis Carroll fan, you’ll want to read them.
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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 s...more
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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.
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