alice's adventures in wonderland & through the looking glass book

‘And some eggs are very pretty, you know’ she added, hoping to turn her remark into a sort of a compliment. ‘I said you looked like an egg, Sir,’ Alice gently explained. ‘It’s very provoking,’ Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke, ‘to be called an egg- Very!’ ‘And how exactly like an egg he is!’ she said aloud, standing with her hands ready to catch him, for she was every moment expecting him to fall. Humpty Dumpty was sitting with his legs crossed, like a Turk, on the top of a high wall-such a narrow one that Alice quite wondered how he could keep his balance-and, as his eyes were steadily fixed in the opposite direction, and he didn’t take the least notice of her, she thought he must be a stuffed figure after all.

It might have been written a hundred times, easily, on that enormous face. ‘I’m as certain of it, as if his name were written all over his face.’ ‘It can’t be anybody else!’ she said to herself.

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it had eyes and a nose and mouth and when she had come close to it, she saw clearly that it was HUMPTY DUMPTY himself. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics. The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. Sylvie and Bruno, published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness. The Hunting of the Snark, a classic nonsense epic (1876) and Euclid and His Modern Rivals, a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students.

The Alice books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. The equally popular sequel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1872. He was happiest in the company of children for whom he created puzzles, clever games, and charming letters.Īs all Carroll admirers know, his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was a man of diverse interests - in mathematics, logic, photography, art, theater, religion, medicine, and science.

Alice's adventures in wonderland & through the looking glass book