Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English mathematician, photographer, and prolific writer, especially known for his beloved books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Preferring the company of children to adults, his Alice books were inspired by his friendship with the young Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, where Carroll was a mathematics instructor.LORI CAMPBELL is a lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century literature and cultural studies. She is the author of Portals of Power: Magical Agency and Transformation in Literary Fantasy.

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• Contentschronological table xvintroduction xixi.alice’s adventures in wonderlandchristmas-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-glasspreface 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 brunopreface 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 doglandxiv. fairy-sylvie xv. bruno’s revenge xvi. a changed crocodile xvii. the three badgersxviii. 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 concludedpreface i. bruno’s lessons ii. love’s curfew iii. streaks of dawn iv. the dog-king v. matilda jane vi. willie’s wifevii. 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. versethe hunting of the snarkpreface to the hunting of the snark fit the firstthe landing fit the secondthe bellman’s speech fit the thirdthe baker’s tale fit the fourththe hunting fit the fifththe beaver’s lesson fit the sixththe barrister’s dream fit the sevenththe banker’s fate fit the eighththe vanishing early versemy 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 wonderlandpuzzles solutions prologues to playsprologue to “la guida di bragia” prologue prologue phantasmagoriacanto 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 variationsa 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 chielode 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 versesacrostic: 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 globemaidens, 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 startto 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 poemsthree 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. storiesa tangled tale novelty and romancement a photographer’s day out wilhelm von schmitz the legend of scotland vii.a miscellanythe 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