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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems Paperback - 1998

by Lewis Carroll; Introduction by Martin Gardner

Mathematician and author Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) has delighted millions with his most widely regarded book, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Known for pointing out the absurdities of life in his fiction and poetry, Carroll took paranormal to the extreme in the satirical poem "Phantasmagoria", the humorous story of an annoying ghost assigned to haunt a new house. Illustrations.


Details

  • Title Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
  • Author Lewis Carroll; Introduction by Martin Gardner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 73
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Prometheus Books
  • Date 1998-10-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781573922524 / 1573922528
  • Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.49 x 5.53 x 0.3 in (21.56 x 14.05 x 0.76 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy poetry, English, Ghosts - Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98027708
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.8

About the author

LEWIS CARROLL, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England, on January 27, 1832. The eldest of eleven children, in 1850 Carroll entered Christ Church College at Oxford University and studied, worked, and lived there the remainder of his life. Concentrating his studies on mathematics and classics, Carroll earned bachelor's and master's degrees, and then lectured in mathematics from 1855 through 1881. He was ordained a deacon of the Church of England in 1861.

While at Oxford, Carroll met Alice Liddell, the second daughter of Henry Liddell, the dean at Christ Church College. To her and her sisters he first told the "Alice" stories, which he later compiled into his famous Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass (1872), both of which owe their longstanding success in part to the whimsical illustrations of Sir John Tenniel, a famous cartoonist and artist. Carroll, whose hobbies included mathematical puzzles and photography, was fascinated by the limits imposed by paradoxes of language and thought, and these themes are strongly evident in the apparent nonsense of Alice's adventures.

Carroll's later works include Phantasmagoria (1869), the mock-heroic narrative poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876), children's books Sylvie and Bruno (1889), and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), and many works on math and logic, which were published under his real name.

Lewis Carroll died January 14, 1898.