Lewis Carroll
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
Novels, Stories, Poems & The Life and Letters
Published by
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- Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -
2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-1889-9
Table of Contents
Novels
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Stories
Bruno’s Revenge and Other Stories
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
Poems
College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel
Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verses
The Hunting of the Snark
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll
Novels
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Contents
All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied
While little hands make vain pretence
Our wanderings to guide.
Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour
Beneath such dreamy weather,
To beg a tale of breath too weak
To stir the tiniest feather!
Yet what can one poor voice avail
Against three tongues together?
Imperious Prima flashes forth
Her edict to ‘begin it’:
In gentler tone Secunda hopes
‘There will be nonsense in it’
While Tertia interrupts the tale
Not more than once a minute.
Anon, to sudden silence won,
In fancy they pursue
The dream-child moving through a land
Of wonders wild and new,
In friendly chat with bird or beast—
And half believe it true.
And ever, as the story drained
The wells of fancy dry,
And faintly strove that weary one
To put the subject by,
‘The rest next time’—‘It is next time!’
The happy voices cry.
Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out—
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer,