General & Miscellaneous Philosophy, English, Irish, & Scottish Poetry

Rhyme? And Reason?

Name: Rhyme? And Reason?
Author: Lewis Carroll
ISBN: 9783655321010

by Lewis Carroll

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Overview

Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
Publication date: 1883
Subjects: Nonsense verses

Illustrators

Nonsense-verses, English

Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General

Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / Humorous

Literary Collections / Essays

Literary Criticism / Poetry

Poetry / General

Poetry / American / General

Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.
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About the Author, Lewis Carroll

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.

Biography

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was a man of diverse interests -- in mathematics, logic, photgraphy, art, theater, religion, medicine, and science. He was happiest in the company of children for whom he created puzzles, clever games, and charming letters.

As all Carroll admirers know, his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. The equally popular sequel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1872.

The Alice books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. The Hunting of the Snark, a classic nonsense epic (1876) and Euclid and His Modern Rivals, a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students. Sylvie and Bruno, published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness.

The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).