Lewis Carroll Short Story Collectionns Books
One winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine and supper, with cigars and wine, was waiting in the study. There was a strangeness in the room, And Something white and wavy Was standing near me in the gloom -- I took it for the carpet-broom Left by that careless slavey. But presently the Thing began To shiver and to sneeze: On which I said "Come, come, my man! That's a most inconsiderate plan. Less noise there, if you please!" "I've caught a cold," the Thing replies, "Out there upon the landing." I turned to look in some surprise, And there, before my very eyes, A little Ghost was standing! The collection was also published under the name Rhyme And Reason. It is Lewis Carroll's longest poem.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
From the original "Of Especial Interest to lovers of Alice Mr. Hugh Schonfield, a young London author, delving in a box outside a bookseller's, found a bound volume of numbers of an old magazine. He paid two shillings for it. In the volume Mr. Schonfield discovered poems - forgotten for about 75 years - composed by Lewis Carroll, and the only short story that the famous author of "Alice in Wonderland" is known to have written. Mr. Schonfield, who has now published his discoveries in book form under the title of FOR THE TRAIN So successful has this little volume proved, that the publishers have decided to bring it out in a new popular edition, so as to bring it within the reach of all lovers of Lewis Carroll." This Edition This book has long been out of print and the Hugh & Helene Schonfield World Service Trust has now brought this new edition to publication as part as the Trust's obligation to ensure the works of Hugh Schonfield remain available to the public. We hope this book will bring pleasure to the reader.
These two early manuscript books by Lewis Carroll originated as a family effort but quickly became the young man's independent project. The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch are a potpourri revealing and foreshadowing the interests and talents of the most accomplished nonsense writer in English. In the two miscellanies the young Carroll's meticulous wit punctures and satirizes numerous conventions of his day: poetry, criticism, music, painting, history, and fiction are all defrocked in turn. Although the two "magazines" provide a significant introduction to Carroll's work, they are little known and, until this edition, have been almost inaccessible to devotees of humorous writing.
Mathematician, author, photographer, and artist, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–1898) is best known as the creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , but he was also a prolific poet. Over the course of almost 50 years, he created 150 poems, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, acrostics, inscriptions, and more, many of them hilarious lampoons of some of the more sentimental and moralistic poems of the Victorian era. This carefully chosen collection contains 38 of Carroll's most appealing verses, including such classics as "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "The Mock Turtle's Song," and "Father William," plus such lesser-known gems as "My Fancy," "A Sea Dirge," "Brother and Sister," "Hiawatha's Photographing," "The Mad Gardener's Song," "What Tottles Meant," "Poeta Fit, non Nascitur," "The Little Man That Had a Little Gun," and many others. Filled with Carroll's special brand of imaginative whimsy and clever wordplay, this original anthology will delight fans of the author as well as other readers who relish a little laughter with their lyrics.