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
''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
If everybody minded their own business,"" the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ""the world would go round a deal faster than it does
Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
And thick and fast they came at last, / And more, and more, and more.
How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale!
''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
One, two! One, two! and through and through / The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!/ He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back.
The horror of that moment,"" the King went on, ""I shall never, never forget!"" ""You will, though,"" the Queen said, ""if you don't make a memorandum of it
He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / There were no birds to fly.
He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.
O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to