Lewis Carroll

Broschiertes Buch

Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense

Collected Poems

Herausgeber: Beer, Gillian

Beschreibung

Collects together Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and an introduction that discusses Carroll's love of puzzles and wordplay.

Autor

LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855, and where he spent the rest of his life. In 1861 he took deacon's orders, but shyness and a stammer prevented him from seeking the priesthood. His most famous works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872), were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of his college. He died of bronchitis in 1898. GILLIAN BEER (introducer) is King Edward VII Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Cambridge and past President of Clare Hall College. Among her works are Darwin's Plots (1983; third edition, 2009), George Eliot (1986), Arguing with the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney (1989), Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996) and Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (1996).

Zur Autorenwelt

Produktdetails

• A Penguin Classics Hardcover
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 265358
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780141192789
• ISBN-10: 014119278X
• Artikelnr.: 39076120

Rezensionen

Opening at random Gillian Beer's new edition of Lewis Carroll's poems, Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense, guarantees a pleasurable experience - not all of it nonsensical Michael Caines Times Literary Supplement