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LEWIS CARROLL Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll (Daresbury, England, January 27, 1832Guildfor, England, January 17, 1898)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, best known by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, was the eldest boy in a family of 11 children. His father, a clergyman, raised them in the rectory. At age 20, he was awarded a studentship to Christ College. Apart from serving as a lecturer in mathematics, he was an avid photographer and wrote essays, political pamphlets and poetry. Carroll suffered from a bad stammer, but he found himself vocally fluent when speaking with children. It was
Alice,
the
daughter
of
Henry
George Liddell, who can be credited with his pinnacle inspiration. Alice Liddell remembers spending many hours with Carroll, sitting on his couch while he told fantastic tales of dream worlds. During an afternoon picnic with Alice and her two sisters, Carroll told the first iteration of what would later become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When Alice arrived home, she exclaimed that he must write the story down for her. The book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was released in 1865. It gained steady popularity, and as a result, Carroll wrote the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871). By the time of his death, Alice had become the most popular children's book in England, and by 1932 it was one of the most popular in the world.
SELECTED WORKS Literary works
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there (1871)
The hunting of the snark (1876)
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles (1895)
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
Mathematical works
A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry (1860)
The Fifth Book of Euclid Treated Algebraically (1858 and 1868)
Euclid and his Modern Rivals (1879)
Symbolic Logic Part I and Symbolic Logic Part II (published posthumously)
The Alphabet Cipher (1868)
The Game of Logic (1887)
Curiosa Mathematica I (1888)
Curiosa Mathematica II (1892)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit
hole
into
a
fantasy
world
populated
by
peculiar,
anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense gener. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. The rabbit,, The March Hare, the Hatter, the Dormouse, The Cheshire Cat, The Queen of Hearts are all of them unforgettable characters. Biblioteca Antonio Martín Plaça Catalunya, 39-41 08820 El Prat de Llobregat Telèfon: 93.370.51.52 b.prat.am@diba.cat www.biblioteca.elprat.cat
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