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Lewis Carroll


Born
in Daresbury, Cheshire, England
January 27, 1832

Died
January 14, 1898

Genre
Children's, Poetry, Fiction

Influences
Edward Lear, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, George MacDonald, Jonathan Swi ...more


The Reverend 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 re ...more

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonde...
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The Complete Stories and Poems
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4.01 avg rating — 6,879 ratings — published 1876 — 719 editions
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Jabberwocky and Other Poems
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Alice in Wonderland: The Co...
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Quotes by Lewis Carroll  (?)
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“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll
tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland
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“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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December 2014 Old School Classic Poll

Which book would you like to read for our December 2014 Old School Classic Group Read?

 
  37 votes, 24.7%

1856, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages
 
  33 votes, 22.0%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages
 
  21 votes, 14.0%

1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages
 
  19 votes, 12.7%

 
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