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The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott and the illustrations by John Tenniel
Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)

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I Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  
[All in the golden afternoon]
  
CHRISTMAS-GREETINGS
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Chapter I Down the Rabbit-Hole
  
[“How doth the little crocodile]
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Chapter V Advice from a Caterpillar
  
[“You are old, Father William,” the young man said]
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Chapter VI Pig and Pepper
  
[“Speak roughly to your little boy]
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Chapter VII A Mad Tea-Party
  
[‘Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!]
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Chapter X The Lobster-Quadrille
  
[“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail]
  
[“'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare]
  
[“I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye]
  
[“Beautiful Soup, so rich and green]
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Chapter XII Alice's Evidence
  
[“They told me you had been to her]
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II Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there
  
[Child of the pure unclouded brow]
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Chapter I Looking-Glass House
  
JABBERWOCKY
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Chapter IV Tweedledum and Tweedledee
  
[“The sun was shining on the sea]
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Chapter VI Humpty Dumpty
  
[“In spring, when woods are getting green]
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Chapter VIII “It's My Own Invention”
  
[“I'll tell thee everything I can]
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Chapter IX Queen Alice
  
[“To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said]
  
[“‘First, the fish must be caught.’]
  
[A boat, beneath a sunny sky]
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III Sylvie and Bruno
  
[Is all our Life, then, but a dream]
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PREFACE
  
[“Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says]
  
[“Farewell, farewell! but this I tell]
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Chapter V A Beggar's Palace
  
[“From sackcloth couch the Monk arose]
  
[“He thought he saw an Elephant]
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Chapter VI The Magic Locket
  
[“He thought he saw a Buffalo]
  
[“He thought he saw a Rattlesnake]
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Chapter VII The Baron's Embassy
  
[“He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk]
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Chapter VIII A Ride on a Lion
  
[“He thought he saw a Kangaroo]
  
[“Let craft, ambition, spite]
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Chapter IX A Jester and a Bear
  
[“He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four]
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Chapter X The Other Professor
  
[There was a Pig, that sat alone]
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Chapter XI Peter and Paul
  
[‘Peter is poor,’ said noble Paul]
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Chapter XII A Musical Gardener
  
[“He thought he saw an Albatross]
  
[“He thought he saw a Garden-Door]
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Chapter XV Bruno's Revenge
  
[“Rise, oh, rise! The daylight dies]
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Chapter XVII The Three Badgers
  
[“There be three Badgers on a mossy stone]
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Chapter XVIII Queer Street, Number Forty
  
[‘How many miles to Babylon?]
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Chapter XX Light Come, Light Go
  
[“He steps so lightly to the land]
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IV Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
  
[Dreams, that elude the Maker's frenzied grasp—]
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Chapter I Bruno's Lessons
  
[“King Fisher courted Lady Bird—]
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Chapter III Streaks of Dawn
  
[“Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee]
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Chapter V Matilda Jane
  
[“Matilda Jane, you never look]
  
[“There's him, an' yo', an' me]
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Chapter XIII What Tottles Meant
  
[“One thousand pounds per annuum]
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Chapter XVI Beyond These Voices
  
[‘We doubt not that, for one so true]
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Chapter XVII To the Rescue
  
[In stature the Manlet was dwarfish—]
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Chapter XIX A Fairy-Duet
  
[“Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping]
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Chapter XX Gammon and Spinach
  
[“He looked again, and found it was]
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Chapter XXIII The Pig-Tale
  
[Little Birds are dining]
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V Verse
  
INSCRIBED TO A DEAR CHILD: IN MEMORY OF GOLDEN SUMMER HOURS AND WHISPERS OF A SUMMER SEA
  
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
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EARLY VERSE
  
MY FAIRY
  
PUNCTUALITY
  
MELODIES
  
BROTHER AND SISTER
  
FACTS
  
RULES AND REGULATIONS
  
HORRORS
  
MISUNDERSTANDINGS
  
AS IT FELL UPON A DAY
  
YE FATTALE CHEYSE
  
LAYS OF SORROW
  
LAYS OF SORROW
  
THE TWO BROTHERS
  
THE LADY OF THE LADLE
  
CORONACH
  
SHE'S ALL MY FANCY PAINTED HIM
  
PHOTOGRAPHY EXTRAORDINARY
  
LAYS OF MYSTERY, IMAGINATION, AND HUMOUR
  
THE MOCK TURTLE'S SONG
  
UPON THE LONELY MOOR
  
MISS JONES
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PUZZLES FROM WONDERLAND
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VII
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SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLES FROM WONDERLAND
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VII
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PROLOGUES TO PLAYS
  
PROLOGUE TO “LA GUIDA DI BRAGIA”
  
PROLOGUE
  
PROLOGUE
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PHANTASMAGORIA
  
[PHANTASMAGORIA]
  
ECHOES
  
A SEA DIRGE
  
YE CARPETTE KNYGHTE
  
HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING
  
MELANCHOLETTA
  
A VALENTINE
  
THE THREE VOICES
  
THEME WITH VARIATIONS
  
A GAME OF FIVES
  
POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR
  
SIZE AND TEARS
  
ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWN
  
THE LANG COORTIN'
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FOUR RIDDLES
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IV
  
FAME'S PENNY-TRUMPET
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COLLEGE RHYMES AND NOTES BY AN OXFORD CHIEL
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FROM COLLEGE RHYMES
  
ODE TO DAMON
  
THOSE HORRID HURDY-GURDIES!
  
MY FANCY
  
THE MAJESTY OF JUSTICE
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FROM NOTES BY AN OXFORD CHIEL
  
THE ELECTIONS TO THE HEBDOMADAL COUNCIL
  
THE DESERTED PARKS
  
EXAMINATION STATUTE
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ACROSTICS, INSCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER VERSES
  
ACROSTIC
  
TO THREE PUZZLED LITTLE GIRLS, FROM THE AUTHOR
  
DOUBLE ACROSTIC
  
THREE LITTLE MAIDS
  
PUZZLE
  
THREE CHILDREN
  
TWO THIEVES
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TWO ACROSTICS
  
(To Miss Ruth Dymes.)
  
(To Miss Margaret Dymes.)
  
DOUBLE ACROSTIC
  
ACROSTIC
  
ACROSTIC
  
ACROSTIC
  
TO M. A. B.
  
ACROSTIC
  
MADRIGAL
  
LOVE AMONG THE ROSES
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TWO POEMS TO RACHEL DANIEL
  
I
  
II FOR “THE GARLAND OF RACHEL” (1881)
  
THE LYCEUM
  
ACROSTIC
  
DREAMLAND
  
TO MY CHILD-FRIEND
  
A RIDDLE
  
A LIMERICK
  
RHYME? AND REASON?
  
A NURSERY DARLING
  
MAGGIE'S VISIT TO OXFORD (June 9th to 13th, 1889)
  
MAGGIE B---
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THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS
  
THREE 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
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VI Stories
  
TO MY PUPIL
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A TANGLED TALE
  
[One piecee thing that my have got]
  
[The elder and the younger knight]
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NOVELTY AND ROMANCEMENT
  
[“When Desolation snatched her tearful prey]
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WILHELM VON SCHMITZ
  
[“What though the world be cross and crooky?]
  
[“His barque had perished in the storm]
  
[“My Sukie! He hath bought, yea, Muggle's self]
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The LEGEND OF SCOTLAND
  
[Lorenzo dwelt at Heighington]
  
[“Here I bee, and here I byde]
  
[“Yn the Auckland Castell cellar]
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VII A Miscellany
  
[Five fathom square the Belfry frowns]
  
THE WANDERING BURGESS
  
A BACCHANALIAN ODE
  
[‘Alas! she would not hear my prayer!]
  
[‘Well! so my offer was no go!]
  
[‘Firebrands and daggers! hope hath fled!]

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[“He thought he saw a Garden-Door]

“He thought he saw a Garden-Door
That opened with a key:
He looked again, and found it was
A Double Rule of Three:
‘And all its mystery,’ he said,
‘Is clear as day to me!’”
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