Negative Space: Lewis Carroll
- Alice’s Adventures Everywhere
- Alice’s Adventures Underground includes Dodgson’s sketches, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland includes Sir John Tenniel’s. Through the Looking Glass contains merely Dodgson’s wonderful text.
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- “All in the golden afternoon, full leisurely we glide.”
- Alice’s Adventures under Ground
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Alice’s Adventures under Ground is the original, shorter work presented to Alice’s mother as a gift. It’s a fascinating “condensation” of the Alice in Wonderland story.
- Alice’s Adventures under Ground: Chapter I
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and where is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?
- Alice’s Adventures under Ground: Chapter II
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They were indeed a curious looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them—all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
- Alice’s Adventures under Ground: Chapter III
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“The first thing I’ve got to do,” said Alice to herself, as she wandered about in the wood, “is to grow to my right size, and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. I think that will be the best plan.”
- Alice’s Adventures under Ground: Chapter IV
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A large rose tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red. This Alice thought a very curious thing.
- Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter Writing
- Charles Dodgson—AKA Lewis Carroll—gives us advice about writing letters that may be satirical but also might not be.
- A Fistful of Carroll
- These poems and stories combined into one file for easy use on an iPhone or other portable device.
- Fit the Eighth: The Vanishing
- “They gazed in delight, while the Butcher exclaimed ‘He was always a desperate wag!’ They beheld him—their Baker—their hero unnamed—on the top of a neighbouring crag,”
- Fit the Fifth: The Beaver’s Lesson
- “They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; they pursued it with forks and hope; they threatened its life with a railway-share; they charmed it with smiles and soap.”
- Fit the First: The Landing
- “Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice: that alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: what I tell you three times is true.”
- Fit the Fourth: The Hunting
- “I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch—I said it in German and Greek. But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) that English is what you speak!”
- Fit the Second: The Bellman’s Speech
- “He was thoughtful and grave—but the orders he gave were enough to bewilder a crew. When he cried ‘Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!’ What on earth was the helmsman to do?”
- Fit the Seventh: The Banker’s Fate
- “He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace the least likeness to what he had been: while so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white—a wonderful thing to be seen!”
- Fit the Sixth: The Barrister’s Dream
- “He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court, where the Snark, with a glass in its eye, dressed in gown, bands, and wig, was defending a pig on the charge of deserting its sty.”
- Fit the Third: The Baker’s Tale
- “They roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice—they roused him with mustard and cress—they roused him with jam and judicious advice—they set him conundrums to guess.”
- The Gardener’s Song
- The Gardener’s Song is a bit of doggerel from Lewis Carroll’s “Sylvie and Bruno”.
- The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
- “This also seems a fitting occasion to notice the other hard words in that poem. Humpty-Dumpty’s theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all.”
- Lewis Carroll
- On-line text for all of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and his Sylvie & Bruno books, as well as more of his poetry and writings.
- Lewis Carroll’s Outland
- Sylvie and Bruno—a story of the faery realm of Outland—is one of Lewis Carroll’s lesser-known works. It has much of the charm, and little of the confusion, of his “Alice in Wonderland” works.
- The Library of the Future
- As near as I can tell, the “net of the future” is a Santa Claus that’s supposed to give us whatever we want whenever we want it. But can it really be that simple?
- Phantasmagoria
- “Houses are classed, I beg to state, According to the number Of Ghosts that they accommodate: (The Tenant merely counts as weight, With Coals and other lumber).”
- Prefaces to Through the Looking Glass
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Follow the chess game through the book, and listen to the author complain about the cheapness of book readers.
- Robbing Peter to pay Peter… later
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Robbing from Peter to pay Paul? Government goes one better: robbing from Peter to pay Peter. As usual, Lewis Carroll is the best writer for the layman on taxes, because Lewis Carroll is the best writer for the layman on anything. “However legal it may be to pay what never has been lent, this style of business seems to me extremely inconvenient!”
- A Sea Dirge
- “The thing that I hate the most is a thing they call the sea: pour some salt water over the floor, ugly I’m sure you’ll allow it to be; suppose it extended a mile or more, that’s very like the sea.” I think we should put this poem on all the “Welcome to San Diego” signs.
- Sylvie and Bruno
- The first half of the story, with illustrations.
- Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
- The final half of Sylvie and Bruno, published five years before Carroll’s death.
- Sylvie and Bruno Concluded preface
- Let me here express my sincere gratitude to the many Reviewers who have noticed, whether favourably or unfavourably, the previous Volume. Their unfavourable remarks were, most probably, well-deserved; the favourable ones less probably so.
More Information
- The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition• (hardcover)
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This fantastic book contains the text to both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. But it also contains a side-bar on many pages filled with notes about what phrases meant at the time Dodgson wrote them, and sometimes what Tenniel’s drawings depict. Would you recognize an eel-trap if you saw one today?
Gardner also reproduces the originals of poems that Dodgson satired, such as the much more boring originals of “Speak roughly to your little boy” and “You are old, father William”. (Martin Gardner)
- The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll• (paperback)
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This appears to be a different version of the work I have. It contains the two major Alice books, the two Sylvie & Bruno books, and a plethora of poems and other writings by Carroll. (Lewis Carroll)
