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Lewis Carroll


Born
in Daresbury, Cheshire, England
January 27, 1832

Died
January 14, 1898

Genre
Children's, Poetry, Fiction

Influences
Edward Lear, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, George MacDonald, Jonathan Swi ...more


The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

He also has works published under his re ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 1,746,540 ratings · 56,719 reviews · 6,146 distinct works • Similar authors
Alice’s Adventures in Wonde...
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The Complete Stories and Poems
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4.01 avg rating — 6,898 ratings — published 1876 — 719 editions
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Jabberwocky and Other Poems
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Alice in Wonderland: The Co...
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Quotes by Lewis Carroll  (?)
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“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll
tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland
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“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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November 2022 Revisit the Shelf Poll

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) 453 pages, last read Nov. 2013.
 
  39 votes, 26.4%

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) 340 pp., last read Dec. 2018
 
  25 votes, 16.9%

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992) 559 pp., last read Oct. 2018
 
  24 votes, 16.2%

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956) 159 pp., last read July 2018
 
  19 votes, 12.8%

Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) 488 pp., last read April 2019
 
  15 votes, 10.1%

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1875) 245 pages, last read May 2016
 
  14 votes, 9.5%

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871) 228 pages, last read March 2020
 
  12 votes, 8.1%

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