Introduction | ||
By Alexander Woollcott | 3 | |
I. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | ||
1. | Down the Rabbit-Hole | 17 |
2. | The Pool of Tears | 26 |
3. | A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale | 35 |
4. | The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill | 42 |
5. | Advice from a Caterpillar | 53 |
6. | Pig and Pepper | 63 |
7. | A Mad Tea-Party | 74 |
8. | The Queen's Croquet-Ground | 84 |
9. | The Mock Turtle's Story | 95 |
10. | The Lobster-Quadrille | 105 |
11. | Who Stole the Tarts? | 114 |
12. | Alice's Evidence | 122 |
II. Through the Looking-Glass | ||
Preface to the 1896 Edition | 138 | |
1. | Looking-Glass House | 141 |
2. | The Garden of Live Flowers | 156 |
3. | Looking-Glass Insects | 168 |
4. | Tweedledum and Tweedledee | 180 |
5. | Wool and Water | 195 |
6. | Humpty Dumpty | 208 |
7. | The Lion and the Unicorn | 221 |
8. | "It's My Own Invention" | 233 |
9. | Queen Alice | 250 |
10. | Shaking | 268 |
11. | Waking | 268 |
12. | Which Dreamed It? | 269 |
III. Sylvie and Bruno | ||
Preface | 277 | |
1. | Less Bread! More Taxes! | 287 |
2. | L'Amie Inconnue | 294 |
3. | Birthday-Presents | 301 |
4. | A Cunning Conspiracy | 309 |
5. | A Beggar's Palace | 316 |
6. | The Magic Locket | 325 |
7. | The Baron's Embassy | 332 |
8. | A Ride on a Lion | 339 |
9. | A Jester and a Bear | 346 |
10. | The Other Professor | 354 |
11. | Peter and Paul | 361 |
12. | A Musical Gardener | 369 |
13. | A Visit to Dogland | 377 |
14. | Fairy-Sylvie | 385 |
15. | Bruno's Revenge | 397 |
16. | A Changed Crocodile | 405 |
17. | The Three Badgers | 412 |
18. | Queer Street, Number Forty | 423 |
19. | How To Make a Phlizz | 432 |
20. | Light Come, Light Go | 441 |
21. | Through the Ivory Door | 451 |
22. | Crossing the Line | 463 |
23. | An Outlandish Watch | 475 |
24. | The Frogs' Birthday-Treat | 484 |
25. | Looking Eastward | 496 |
IV. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | ||
Preface | 509 | |
1. | Bruno's Lessons | 523 |
2. | Love's Curfew | 533 |
3. | Streaks of Dawn | 542 |
4. | The Dog-King | 551 |
5. | Matilda Jane | 559 |
6. | Willie's Wife | 568 |
7. | Mein Herr | 575 |
8. | In a Shady Place | 584 |
9. | The Farewell-Party | 593 |
10. | Jabbering and Jam | 604 |
11. | The Man in the Moon | 613 |
12. | Fairy-Music | 620 |
13. | What Tottles Meant | 630 |
14. | Bruno's Picnic | 641 |
15. | The Little Foxes | 653 |
16. | Beyond These Voices | 660 |
17. | To the Rescue! | 669 |
18. | A Newspaper-Cutting | 679 |
19. | A Fairy-Duet | 682 |
20. | Gammon and Spinach | 695 |
21. | The Professor's Lecture | 706 |
22. | The Banquet | 715 |
23. | The Pig-Tale | 724 |
24. | The Beggar's Return | 734 |
25. | Life Out of Death | 744 |
V. Verse The Hunting of the Snark | ||
Preface | 753 | |
Fit The First | 757 | |
(The Landing) | ||
Fit The Second | 760 | |
(The Bellman's Speech) | ||
Fit The Third | 764 | |
(The Baker's Tale) | ||
Fit The Fourth | 766 | |
The Hunting | ||
Fit The Fifth | 769 | |
The Beaver's Lesson | ||
Fit The Sixth | 773 | |
The Barrister's Dream | ||
Fit The Seventh | 776 | |
The Banker's Fate | ||
Fit The Eighth | 777 | |
The Vanishing | ||
Early Verse | ||
My Fairy | 779 | |
Punctuality | 780 | |
Melodies | 781 | |
Brother and Sister | 782 | |
Facts | 783 | |
Rules and Regulations | 784 | |
Horrors | 786 | |
Misunderstandings | 787 | |
As It Fell Upon a Day | 788 | |
Ye Fattale Cheyse | 789 | |
Lays of Sorrow, No. 1 | 791 | |
Lays of Sorrow, No. 2 | 794 | |
The Two Brothers | 799 | |
The Lady of the Ladle | 805 | |
Coronach | 806 | |
She's All My Fancy Painted Him | 807 | |
Photography Extraordinary | 809 | |
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour, No. 1: The Palace of Humbug | 810 | |
The Mock Turtle's Song (Early version) | 813 | |
Upon the Lonely Moor | 813 | |
Miss Jones | 816 | |
PUZZLES FROM WONDERLAND | ||
Puzzles | 819 | |
Solutions | 821 | |
PROLOGUES TO PLAYS | ||
Prologue to "La Guida di Bragia" | 823 | |
Prologue | 823 | |
Prologue | 826 | |
PHANTASMAGORIA | ||
Phantasmagoria | ||
Canto I: The Trysting | 827 | |
Canto II: Hys Fyve Rules | 831 | |
Canto III: Scarmoges | 834 | |
Canto IV: Hys Nouryture | 838 | |
Canto V: Byckerment | 843 | |
Canto VI: Dyscomfyture | 847 | |
Canto VII: Sad Souvenaunce | 851 | |
Echoes | 853 | |
A Sea Dirge | 854 | |
Ye Carpette Knyghte | 855 | |
Hiawatha's Photographing | 856 | |
Melancholetta | 861 | |
A Valentine | 863 | |
The Three Voices | 865 | |
Theme with Variations | 878 | |
A Game of Fives | 879 | |
Poeta Fit, non Nascitur | 880 | |
Size and Tears | 884 | |
Atalanta in Camden-Town | 885 | |
The Lang Coortin' | 887 | |
Four Riddles | 893 | |
Fame's Penny-Trumpet | 898 | |
College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel | ||
Ode to Damon | 901 | |
Those Horrid Hurdy-Gurdies! | 903 | |
My Fancy | 904 | |
The Majesty of Justice | 905 | |
The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council | 908 | |
The Deserted Park | 917 | |
Examination Statute | 920 | |
Acrostics, Inscriptions, and Other Verse | ||
Acrostic: Little maidens, when you look | 922 | |
To three puzzled little Girls, from the Author | 923 | |
Double Acrostic: I sing a place wherein agree | 923 | |
Three Little Maids | 925 | |
Puzzle | 925 | |
Three Children | 926 | |
Two Thieves | 927 | |
Two Acrostics: Round the wondrous globe | 928 | |
Two Acrostics: Maidens, if a maid you meet | ||
Double Acrostic: Two little girls near London dwell | 929 | |
Acrostic: "Are you deaf, Father William?" | 930 | |
Acrostic: Maidens! if you love the tale | 930 | |
Acrostic: Love-lighted eyes, that will not start | 931 | |
To M.A.B. | 932 | |
Acrostic: Maiden, though thy heart may quail | 932 | |
Madrigal | 933 | |
Love among the Roses | 933 | |
Two Poems to Rachel Daniel | 934 | |
The Lyceum | 936 | |
Acrostic: Around my lonely hearth, to-night | 937 | |
Dreamland | 937 | |
To my Child-Friend | 938 | |
A Riddle | 939 | |
A Limerick | 939 | |
Rhyme? and Reason? | 940 | |
A Nursery Darling | 940 | |
Maggie's Visit to Oxford | 941 | |
Maggie B— | 945 | |
Three Sunsets and Other Poems | ||
Three Sunsets | 946 | |
The Path of Roses | 950 | |
The Valley of the Shadow of Death | 953 | |
Solitude | 958 | |
Beatrice | 960 | |
Stolen Waters | 962 | |
The Willow-Tree | 966 | |
Only a Woman's Hair | 967 | |
The Sailor's Wife | 969 | |
After Three Days | 972 | |
Faces in the Fire | 975 | |
A Lesson in Latin | 976 | |
Puck Lost and Found | 977 | |
VI. Stories | ||
A Tangled Tale | 983 | |
Novelty and Romancement | 1079 | |
A Photographer's Day Out | 1089 | |
Wilhelm von Schmitz | 1097 | |
The Legend of Scotland | 1111 | |
VII. A Miscellany | ||
The Offer of the Clarendon Trustees | 1121 | |
The New Method of Evaluation | 1123 | |
The Dynamics of a Parti-cle | 1129 | |
The New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford | 1139 | |
The Vision of the Three T's | 1150 | |
The Blank Cheque | 1170 | |
Twelve Months in a Curatorship | 1177 | |
Three Years in a Curatorship | 1182 | |
Resident Women-Students | 1185 | |
Some Popular Fallacies about Vivisection | 1189 | |
Lawn Tennis Tournaments | 1201 | |
Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing | 1211 | |
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles | 1225 | |
The Two Clocks | 1230 | |
Photography Extraordinary | 1231 | |
Hints of Etiquette, or, Dining Out Made Easy | 1235 | |
A Hemispherical Problem | 1237 | |
A Selection from Symbolic Logic | 1238 | |
Rules for Court Circular | 1265 | |
Croquet Castles | 1269 | |
Mischmasch | 1272 | |
Doublets | 1274 | |
A Postal Problem | 1280 | |
The Alphabet Cipher | 1283 | |
Introduction to The Lost Plum Cake | 1285 | |
Index of First Lines of Verse | 1289 |
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