Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 January 1832
CityDaresbury, England
Lewis Carroll quotes about
Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.
By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.
A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
You are old,"" said the youth, ""and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray, how did you manage to do it? ""In my youth,"" said his father, ""I took to the law, And argued e