Lewis Carroll is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, here illustrated throughout 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 works of a humorous, witty, whimsical and nonsensical nature such as the mock-heroic nonsense verse The Hunting of the Snark, as well as dozens of other verses, stories, acrostics, and puzzles, all of which are included in this omnibus volume. 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 pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses. [from the back cover]
With an introduction by Alexander Woolcott, Illustrations by John Tenniel
Lewis Carroll is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, here illustrated throughout 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 works of a humorous, witty, whimsical and nonsensical nature such as the mock-heroic nonsense verse The Hunting of the Snark, as well as dozens of other verses, stories, acrostics, and puzzles, all of which are included in this omnibus volume. 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 pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses. [from the back cover]
With an introduction by Alexander Woolcott, Illustrations by John Tenniel