The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (1920)
by Lewis Carroll
1634681The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll1920Lewis Carroll
Contents
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


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1943, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse