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Book SynopsisDelve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales and original, iconic illustrations by John Tenniel. The next elegant edition in the Timeless Classics series,
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Talesis unabridged and complete, and comprised of:
- Both Alice books (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass)
- The nonsense poems, including “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky”
- The novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
- Carroll’s essays and other miscellaneous writings
Also included are the original, iconic illustrations by John Tenniel and an introduction by Lori Campbell. Lewis Carroll fans worldwide will fall in love with this stunning hardcover gift edition complete with
gorgeous foil cover detail,
decorative endpapers, and a
ribbon marker.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales contains every piece ever written by this master of puns, puzzles, and fantasy that have been delighting adults and children alike for over 150 years.
The
Timeless Classics series from Rock Point brings together the works of classic authors from around the world. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed gift editions feature luxe, patterned endpapers, ribbon markers, and foil and deboss details on vibrantly colored cases. Celebrate these beloved works of literature as true standouts in your personal library collection.
Table of ContentsContents
chronological table xv
introduction xix
i.
alice’s adventures in wonderland
christmas-greetings
i. down the rabbit-hole
ii. 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
ii.
through the looking-glass
preface to 1896 edition
i. looking-glass house 101ii. 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?
iii.
sylvie and bruno
preface
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
xi. 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
iv.
sylvie and bruno concluded
preface
i. bruno’s lessons
ii. love’s curfew
iii. 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
v. verse
the hunting of the snark
preface to the hunting of the snark
fit the first
the landing
fit the second
the bellman’s speech
fit the third
the baker’s tale
fit the fourth
the hunting
fit the fifth
the beaver’s lesson
fit the sixth
the barrister’s dream
fit the seventh
the banker’s fate
fit the eighth
the vanishing
early verse
my fairy
punctuality
melodies
brother and sister
facts
rules and regulations
horrors
misunderstandings
as it fell upon a day
ye fattale cheyse
lays of sorrow, no. 1
lays of sorrow, no. 2
the two brothers
the lady of the ladle
coronach
she’s all my fancy painted him
photography extraordinary
lays of mystery, imagination, and humour, no. 1:
the palace of humbug
the mock turtle’s song
upon the lonely moor
miss jones
puzzles from wonderland
puzzles
solutions
prologues to plays
prologue to “la guida di bragia”
prologue
prologue
phantasmagoria
canto i: the trystyng
canto ii: hys fyve rules
canto iii: scarmoges
canto iv: hys nouryture
canto v: byckerment
canto vi: discomfyture
canto vii: sad souvenaunce
echoes
a sea dirge
ye carpette knyghte
hiawatha’s photographing
melancholetta
a valentine
the three voices
theme with variations
a game of fives
poeta fit, non nascitur
size and tears
atalanta in camden-town
the lang coortin’
four riddles
fame’s penny-trumpet
college rhymes and notes by an oxford chiel
ode to damon
those horrid hurdy-gurdies!
my fancy
the majesty of justice
the elections to the hebdomadal council
the deserted parks
examination statute
acrostics, inscriptions, and other verses
acrostic: little maidens, when you look
to three puzzled little girls, from the author
double acrostic: i sing a place wherein agree
three little maids
puzzle
three children
two thieves
two acrostics: round the wondrous globe
maidens, if a maid you meet
double acrostic: two little girls near london dwell
acrostic: “are you deaf, father william?”
acrostic: maidens! if you love the tale
acrostic: love-lighted eyes, that will not start
to m. a. b.
acrostic: maiden, though thy heart may quail
madrigal
love among the roses
two poems to rachel daniel
the lyceum
acrostic: around my lonely hearth tonight
dreamland
to my child-friend
a riddle
a limerick
rhyme? and reason?
a nursery darling
maggie’s visit to oxford
maggie b——
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
vi. stories
a tangled tale
novelty and romancement
a photographer’s day out
wilhelm von schmitz
the legend of scotland
vii.
a miscellany
the offer of the clarendon trustees
the new method of evaluation
the dynamics of a parti-cle
the new belfry of christ church, oxford
the vision of the three t’s
the blank cheque
twelve months in a curatorship
three years in a curatorship by one whom it has tried
resident women-students
some popular fallacies about vivisection
lawn tennis tournaments
eight or nine wise words about letter writing
what the tortoise said to achilles
the two clocks
photography extraordinary
hints for etiquette; or, dining out made easy
a hemispherical problem
a selection from symbolic logic
rules for court circular
croquet castles
mischmasch
doublets
a postal problem
the alphabet-cipher
introduction to “the lost plum cake”
endnotes
index of first lines of verse
the life and times of lewis carroll
further reading
