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This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, a garden of talking flowers, and rude insects. Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass...
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Alicia era la niña más curiosa de Inglaterra. Le gustaban las adivinanzas, los gatos, las historias divertidas y los libros con dibujos.
Pero los que no tenían dibujos, no.
Y, como si lo hubiera hecho aposta, aquella tarde, su hermana, que era mayor que ella y creía que sabía muchas más cosas que Alicia, había decidido leer un libro gigante que estaba tan lleno de palabras que las letras tenían que encoger la barriga para no caerse de la página.
Pero...
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Master of gibberish Lewis Carroll brings his inventive style of writing to life once more in the collection "Jabberwocky and Other Poems." Though most famous for his creation of Wonderland and Alice's fall into the uncanny world of the nonsensical, Carroll used his wordsmithing ability to form inventive rhymes and lexicons in this collection. Words like "bandersnatch," "chortled," "tulgey," and even "Jabberwocky" are inventions of Carroll's mind....
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The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll - "The Hunting of the Snark" (An Agony in 8 Fits) is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1874, when he was 42 years old. It describes "with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature".
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Immerse yourself in a world of limitless imagination and boundless wonder with Lewis Carroll's classic tale, "Alice Through the Looking Glass." Follow the beloved character Alice as she travels through a strange and fantastical mirror-world, encountering a cast of curious characters and embarking on mind-bending adventures.
The story, is a sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" takes us deeper into the rabbit hole and explores the theme of...
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Alice s'ennuie et s'endort dans un fauteuil. Elle rêve qu'elle passe dans un autre monde, de l'autre cté du miroir du salon. Celui-ci est à la fois la campagne anglaise, un échiquier, et littéralement le monde à l'envers. Elle doit par exemple courir très vite pour rester sur place. Pour atteindre le jardin, elle doit d'abord s'en éloigner. De l'autre cté du miroir, notre héroïne croise des pièces d'échiquier et des personnages de la...
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Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carroll's novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his masterpiece of nonsense verse "The Hunting of the Snark," and...
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Alicia está tomando las lecciones del día en un jardín, junto a su hermana. El libro, aburridísimo, y sin imágenes, hace que desvíe la mirada. Es en este momento en que, de la nada, aparece un pequeño Conejo Blanco que, como muchas personas, parece que tiene mucha prisa. La curiosidad de Alicia es demasiada y decide perseguir al Conejo Blanco, sin imaginarse, todas las aventuras que le esperarían. Y, como dice la duquesa, "Aquí hay una moraleja…"...
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Will you follow Alice down the rabbit hole? She shrinks, she grows and she gets into all sorts of mischief in Wonderland. After eating a peculiar cake Alice's adventures just begin. She meets many interesting characters along the way including the ever-late White Rabbit, the mellow Caterpillar, the grinning Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts. Will Alice make it out of Wonderland, head still intact?
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Lewis Carroll the author of the world famous Alice in Wonderland is well known even today for his fiction, but his tenure as professor of mathematics at Oxford university is less well known as is his love of logic problems. Carroll was a mathematician at heart; he deeply loved and was fascinated by the subject. At first it may seem odd that a creator of such nonsensical writings would have such an interest in this area, although the logic involved...
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Alice s'ennuie et se plaint auprès de sa sœur, qui lit un livre sans images, ni dialogues. Elle se demande «À quoi bon un livre sans images, ni dialogues?». Juste à ce moment, un lapin blanc aux yeux roses vêtu d'une redingote avec une montre à gousset à y ranger surgit et passe près d'elle en courant. Cette vision ne l'étonne pas au premier abord, mais quand elle voit le lapin sortir une montre de sa poche et s'écrier: «Je suis en retard!...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Lewis Carroll's complete works. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
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Novels: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Sylvie and Bruno; Concluded Stories: A Tangled Tale, Bruno's Revenge and Other Stories, What the Tortoise Said to...
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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,...
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Ya fuera por una somnolencia excesiva durante la tarde anterior, o por las preocupaciones hostiles, o por insomnio puro, la realidad es que Charles L. Dodgson (o, como lo conoce la mayoría de la gente, Lewis Carroll) tenía problemas para conciliar el sueño. Y ante esta situación del tipo "entre la espada y la pared", decidió convertir sus noches de vigilia en noches de actividad creativa. Entre 1872 y 1890 pensó y resolvió los 72 Problemas...
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With satire, adventure, and imagination, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems explores subjects such as the supernatural, love, friendship, and nature. Featuring sixteen of Lewis Carroll's poems, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems has something to appeal to everyone. Among this collection is A Sea Dirge, in which the speaker, equipped with evocative figurative language, explains their contempt for the sea. In Echoes, a young girl discloses her encounter with...
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Curiouser and curiouser. . .When Alice takes a tumble following the White Rabbit, she finds herself in a world in which nothing is what it is, because everything is what it isn't. But can Alice make sense of the nonsense in the land of the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat? And will she ever get home again?