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Down the Rabbit Hole and Onto the Web: Lewis Carroll Etexts

Writing as Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson achieved literary immortality with his two classic Alice books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, which abound with such memorable characters as the bombastic Queen of Hearts, the tardy White Rabbit, quarrelsome Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, the comical Mad Hatter, and the smiling Cheshire Cat.

Filled with good advice ("Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing--turn out your toes when you walk--and remember who you are!" "Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.") and memorable phrases that have enriched the lexicon ("curiouser and curiouser"; "of cabbages and kings"), the Alice books on one level are a child's fantasy, but they are also multilayered tales chockful of logic puzzles, word plays, and sly jokes and puns for adult readers.

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Born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England on January 27, 1832, Carroll attended Oxford University, where he became a professor of mathematics; he published several books on mathematics, including Euclid and His Modern Rivals, which is available as an etext. He originally wrote the Alice stories for a little girl named Alice Liddell, the daughter of a colleague. Carroll died on January 14, 1898, at Guildford, Surrey, England.

Both of the Alice books are available as free etexts on the Web, along with the original John Tenniel illustrations, as are several variations of Alice stories, including the script for the Disney version of the story, Alice in Wonderland.

A number of other works by Lewis Carroll are also accessible with the click of your computer mouse.

Alice in Wonderland
#1 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 (with John Tenniel illustrations)
#2 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872 (with John Tenniel illustrations)

#2 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872 (with Blanche McManus illustrations)

Alice's Adventures Under Ground, c. 1864 (Carroll's initial version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
The Nursery Alice, 1890 (Carroll's adaptation for younger children)
Alice in Wonderland, 1951 (film script for the Walt Disney adaptation, screenplay by Winston Hibler, Ted Sears, et al.)

Additional works on the Web by Lewis Carroll
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, 1869
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits, 1876
Euclid and His Modern Rivals, 1879
A Tangled Tale, 1885
The Game of Logic, 1886
Sylvie and Bruno, 1889
Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing, 1890
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893
Symbolic Logic, 1896
"Bruno's Revenge" and other short works
Additional poems and short stories