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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

Name: Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
Author: Lewis Carroll
ISBN: 9781847537478

by Lewis Carroll

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Overview

Mathematician and author Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) has delighted millions with his most widely regarded book, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Known for pointing out the absurdities of life in his fiction and poetry, Carroll took paranormal to the extreme in the satirical poem "Phantasmagoria", the humorous story of an annoying ghost assigned to haunt a new house. Illustrations.

Synopsis

An amusing collection that covers a wide range of topics. Carroll, an English logician, mathematician, and novelist collected these humorous and other verse in 1869 and they've intrigued readers ever since.

About the Author, Lewis Carroll

It's possible that if Lewis Carroll had never met Alice Liddell, he might have enjoyed a more peaceful lifetime and an obscure legacy. But his whimsical inventiveness touched everything he did, and a story he made up one afternoon for a little girl became one of literature's great classics, Alice in Wonderland.