Contained in this volume are the two classics by Lewis Carroll, «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» and «Through the Looking Glass.» We are first introduced to Alice in «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» where we find Alice idly passing away the time next to a river when she sees a white rabbit pass by in a waistcoat. She follows the rabbit down the rabbit hole and ends up in the fantasy world of Wonderland. Alice's adventures are continued in «Through the Looking Glass» when Alice...
During a boat trip up the Isis River with Reverend Robinson Duckworth and the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, one of whom is named Alice, Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, invents a story about a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. Several years later this tale would be forever immortalized as “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.” The story begins with Alice idly passing away the time next to a river when she sees a White Rabbit in a...
During a boat trip up the Isis River with Reverend Robinson Duckworth and the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, one of whom is named Alice, Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, invents a story about a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. Several years later this tale would be forever immortalized as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” The story begins with Alice idly passing away the time next to a river when she sees a White Rabbit in a...
In this children's classic, unabridged with original illustrations, a girl named Alice follows falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm full of talking creatures. She attends a never-ending tea party and plays croquet at the court of the anthropomorphic playing cards. Table of Contents: Alice's Adventures Under Ground (an early draft of the Alice story), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pseudonym...
A Tangled Tale is a collection of ten brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll, published serially between April 1880 and March 1885.The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. The ribbing of readers answering wrongly – giving their names – was not always well received. Short story «Bruno's...
This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» – Alice, a girl of seven years, is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister. She then notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit hole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curious hall with many locked doors of all sizes and gets stuck in a fantasy...
Lewis Carroll wrote several mathematics books. He was mainly interested in using logic diagrams as a pedagogical tool. Symbolic Logic, first published in 1896, contains literally dozens of puzzles. He believed heartily that children would enjoy learning mathematics if they could be enticed by amusing stories and puzzles. The Game of Logic, published in 1897, was intended to teach logic to children. His «game» consisted of a card with two diagrams, together with a set of counters, five grey and...
Eines schönen Sommertages läuft an der kleinen Alice ein weißes Kaninchen mit einer Taschenuhr vorbei! Das Mädchen folgt dem Nagetier in ein großes Kaninchenloch, von wo aus es rasant abwärts in eine wundersame Welt geht, die angefüllt mit den skurrilsten Gestalten ist.
Alice' Reise in eine traumartige Unterwelt: Sie begegnet einer Gruppe winziger Tiere, wird im Kaninchenbau gefangen, trifft auf einen Säugling, der sich plötzlich in ein Schwein verwandelt…
"Rhyme? And Reason?" by Lewis Carroll. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...
Sylvie and Bruno is a novel for children by Lewis Carroll published in 1889. The work evolved from his short story «Bruno's Revenge,» published in 1867 in Aunt Judy's Magazine. With its sequel, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), it was his final work for children. The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense elements...
"Phantasmagoria and Other Poems" by Lewis Carroll. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...