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The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll – «The Hunting of the Snark» (An Agony in 8 Fits) is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1874, when he was 42 years old. It describes «with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature».

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A través del Espejo y lo que Alicia encontró allí puede parecer una obra disparatada, tal vez más que su primera parte, Las aventuras de Alicia en el País de las Maravillas. Incluso su lectura podría marear un poco al principio, pero esta historia tan descabellada va cobrando cierto sentido cuando vislumbramos —como bien escribió Jorge Luis Borges— que entraña «el secreto rigor del ajedrez», así como el primer libro encerró el de la baraja. Aun yendo más a fondo, el sentido se nos revela al fin cuando entrevemos que gran parte de los acontecimientos que aquí ocurren, se nos manifiestan como reflejados en un espejo. Quedan cordialmente invitados a explorar ese mundo del Espejo, un mundo de sueños. Esos sueños que, en palabras de Borges, «forman parte de nuestra felicidad».

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Poetry Collections of Lewis Carroll» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Early Verse Puzzles from Wonderland Prologues to Plays Rhyme? And Reason? College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verses Three Sunsets and Other Poems The Hunting of the Snark Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon 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 examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Hunting of the Snark – With the Original High Resolution Illustrations of Henry Holiday» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Hunting of the Snark is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem «Jabberwocky» in his children's novel Through the Looking Glass. The plot follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, an animal which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum; the only one of the crew to find the Snark quickly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that it was a Boojum after all. Henry Holiday illustrated the poem, and the poem is dedicated to Gertrude Chataway, whom Carroll met as a young girl at the English seaside town Sandown in the Isle of Wight in 1875. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898), better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon 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 examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Collected Short Stories of Lewis Carroll» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: A Tangled Tale Bruno's Revenge and Other Stories What the Tortoise Said to Achilles A Tangled Tale is a collection of ten brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll, published serially between April 1880 and March 1885.The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. The ribbing of readers answering wrongly – giving their names – was not always well received. Short story «Bruno's Revenge» was originally published in 1867. Some years later, in 1873 or 1874, Carroll had the idea to use this piece as the core for a longer story. Much of the rest of the novel he compiled from notes of ideas and dialogue which he had collected over the years. What the Tortoise Said to Achilles, written by Lewis Carroll in 1895 for the philosophical journal Mind, is a brief dialogue which problematises the foundations of logic. The title alludes to one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion, in which Achilles could never overtake the tortoise in a race. In Carroll's dialogue, the tortoise challenges Achilles to use the force of logic to make him accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument. Ultimately, Achilles fails, because the clever tortoise leads him into an infinite regression. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, written in1871, is a novel by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May (4 May), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November, uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898), better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Complete Novels of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Lewis Carroll is best known for his books describing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, but he was a prolific author of fantasy and nonsense verse, which are represented here in the complete Sylvie and Bruno. This collection includes the book The Life And Letters Of Lewis Carroll by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood. Table of Contents: Alice's Adventures Under Ground Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Through The Looking-Glass Sylvie And Bruno Sylvie And Bruno Concluded The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll is a biography written by Carroll's nephew, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, and published in 1898. It accidentally started the entire image of Lewis Carroll as a pedophile by deliberately suppressing all the evidence for his sometimes unconventional relationships with women, explaining that some of those women had been little girls… Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1870–1937) was an English clergyman and headmaster. He wrote two books about his uncle, Lewis Carroll.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «Selected Mathematical Works: Symbolic Logic + The Game of Logic + Feeding the Mind» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Lewis Carroll wrote several mathematics books. He was mainly interested in using logic diagrams as a pedagogical tool. Symbolic Logic, first published in 1896, contains literally dozens of puzzles. He believed heartily that children would enjoy learning mathematics if they could be enticed by amusing stories and puzzles. The Game of Logic, published in 1897, was intended to teach logic to children. His «game» consisted of a card with two diagrams, together with a set of counters, five grey and four red. The two diagrams were Carroll's version of a two-set and a three-set Venn diagram. A manuscript of a brief lecture Lewis Carroll once gave, Feeding the Mind, discusses the importance of not only feeding the body, but also the mind. Carroll wittily puts forth connections between the diet of the body and mind, and gives helpful tips on how to best digest knowledge in the brain. This essay was originally printed in 1907. Lewis Carroll ((1832-1898) is best known as the author of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. His real name was Charles Dodgson. His father, the Reverend Charles Dodgson, instilled in his son a love of mathematics from an early age. Lewis studied at Oxford, and later taught there as a Mathematics Lecturer.

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