This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.

Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.

Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection.

INTRODUCTION: THE ILLUSTRATED WORLD OF

LEWIS CARROLL AND HIS ALICES

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

  I. Down the Rabbit-Hole

  lI. The Pool of Tears

 III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

  IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

  V. Advice from a Caterpillar

  VI. Pig and Pepper

 VII. A Mad Tea-Party

VIII. The Queen's Croquet Ground

  IX. The Mock Turtle's Story

  X. The Lobster-Quadrille

  XI. Who Stole the Tarts?

 XII. Alice's Evidence

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT

ALICE FOUND THERE

  I. Looking-Glass House

  II. The Garden of Live Flowers

 III. Looking-Glass Insects

  IV. Tweedledum and Tweedledee

  V. Wool and Water

  VI. Humpty Dumpty

 VII. The Lion and the Unicorn

VIII. "It's My Own Invention"

  IX. Queen Alice

  X. Shaking

  XI. Waking

 XII. Which Dreamed It?

THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK: AN AGONY

  IN EIGHT FITS

  I. The Landing

  Ⅱ. The Bellman's Speech

 III. The Baker's Tale

  IV. The Hunting

  V. The Beaver's Lesson

  VI. The Barrister's Dream

 VII. The Banker's Fate

VIII. The Vanishing

RHYME? AND REASON?

  PHANTASMAGORIA, in Seven Cantos:

   I. The Trystyng

  II. Hys Fyve Rules

  III. Scarmoges

  IV. Hys Nouryture

   V. Byckerment

  VI. Dyscomfyture

  VII. Sad Souvenance

 Echoes

 A Sea Dirge

 Ye Carpette Knyghte

 Hiawatha's Photographing

 M elancholetta

 A Valentine

 The Three Voices:

The First Voice

The Second Voice

The Third Voice

 Tema con Variazi6ni

A Game of Fives

Poeta Fit, non nascitur

Size and Tears

Atalanta in Camden-Town

The Lang Coortin'

Four Riddles

Fame' s Penny-Trumpet

Note: The Hunting of the Snark appears separately in its entirety,

so it has not been repeated in this section.

A TANGLED TALE

  I. Excelsior

  II. Eligible Apartments

  Ⅲ. Mad Mathesis

  IV. The Dead Reckoning

  V. Oughts and Crosses

  VI. Her Radiancy

 VII. Petty Cash

VIII. De Omnibus Rebus

  IX. A Serpent with Comers

  X. Chelsea Buns

Answers to Knots

ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND

  I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The Pool of Tears

  II. A Long Tale. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

  Ⅲ. Advice from a Caterpillar

  IV. The Queen's Croquet-Ground. The Mock Turtle's Story

The Lobster Quadrille. Who Stole the Tarts?

SYLVIE AND BRUNO

I. Less Bread! More Taxes!

II. L'Amie Inconnue

  III. Birthday-Presents

IV. A Cunning Conspiracy

V. A Beggar's Palace

VI. The Magic Locket

  VII. The Baron's Embassy

 VIII. A Ride on a Lion

IX. A Jester and a Bear

X. The Other Professor

XI. Peter and Paul

  XII. A Musical Gardener

 XIII. A Visit to Dogland

  XIV. Fairy-Sylvie

XV. Bruno's Revenge

  XVI. A Changed Crocodile

 XVII. The Three Badgers

XVIII. Queer Street, Number Forty

  XIX. How to Make a Phlizz

XX. Light Come, Light Go

  XXI. Through the Ivory Door

 XXII. Crossing the Line

XXIII. An Outlandish Watch

 XXIV. The Frogs' Birthday-Treat

  XXV. Looking Eastward

SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED

  I. Bruno's Lessons

  II. Love's Curfew

 Ill. Streaks of Dawn

  IV. The Dog-King

  V. Matilda Jane

  VI. Willie's Wife

 VII. Mein Herr

VIII. In a Shady Place

  IX. The Farewell-Party

  X. Jabbering and Jam

  XI. The Man in the Moon

 XII. Fairy-Music

XIII. What Tottles Meant

 XIV. Bruno's Picnic

  XV. The Little Foxes

 XVI. Beyond These Voices

XVII. To the Rescue!

XVIII. A Newspaper-Cutting

 XIX. A Fairy-Duet

  XX. Gammon and Spinach

 XXI. The Professor's Lecture

XXII. The Banquet

XXIII. The Pig-Tale

XXIV. The Beggar's Return

 XXV. Life Out of Death

THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS

 Three Sunsets

 The Path of Roses

 The Valley of the Shadow of Death

 Solitude

 Beatrice

 Stolen Waters

 The Willow-Tree

 Only a Woman's Hair

 The Sailor's Wife

 After Three Days

 Faces in the Fire

 A Lesson in Latin

 Puck Lost and Found

Note: Two Sylvie and Bruno poems, "Far Away" and "A Song

of Love," have not been repeated in this section.

LEWIS CARROLL: A BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONOLOGY

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