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Edwin Dodgson (brother) Charles Dodgson (great-grandfather) Signature. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( / ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdsən / LUT-wij DOD-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.
Alice Pleasance Hargreaves ( née Liddell, / ˈlɪdəl /; [1] 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll. One of the stories he told her during a boating trip became the classic 1865 children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. 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 ...
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles. " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles ", [1] written by Lewis Carroll in 1895 for the philosophical journal Mind, [1] is a brief allegorical dialogue on the foundations of logic. [1] The title alludes to one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion, [2] in which Achilles could never overtake the tortoise in a race.
February 1943. " Mimsy Were the Borogoves " is a science fiction short story by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym of American writers Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore ), originally published in the February 1943 issue of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. [ 1] It was judged by the Science Fiction Writers of America to be among the best science fiction ...
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is a novel published on 27 December 1871, although it is indicated that the novel was published in 1872 [1] by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
The Hunting of the Snark, subtitled An Agony, in Eight fits, is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll.It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem.Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
How Doth the Little Crocodile. " How Doth the Little Crocodile " is a poem by Lewis Carroll which appears in chapter 2 of his 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice recites it while attempting to recall "Against Idleness and Mischief" by Isaac Watts. It describes a crafty crocodile that lures fish into its mouth with a welcoming smile.