The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll (Wordsworth Library Collection)

About this book

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniels much loved drawings. However inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games tricks and conundrums this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other works of a humorous witty whimsical and nonsensical nature such as the mock-heroic nonsense verse The Hunting of the Snark as well as dozens of other verses stories acrostics and puzzles all of which are included in this volume. Oxford scholar Church of England Deacon University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic academic author of learned theses gifted pioneer of portrait photography colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.