The Collected Short Stories of Lewis Carroll (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Tangled Tale + Bruno's Revenge and Other Stories + What the Tortoise Said to AchillesBy Lewis Carroll
Length7h 26m
About this audiobook
The Collected Short Stories of Lewis Carroll gathers the shorter imaginative writings of a writer whose fiction delights in paradox, linguistic play, and the unstable border between sense and nonsense. These pieces display Carroll's characteristic fusion of fairy-tale invention, comic dialogue, riddling logic, satire, and mathematical ingenuity. Read in the context of Victorian literature, they illuminate the same intellectual climate that produced Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: a world fascinated by childhood, education, scientific order, and the absurdities hidden within polite society. Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician, logician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. His professional life in mathematics and his intimate knowledge of academic culture deeply shaped his fiction: arguments become games, games become philosophical puzzles, and language itself becomes a mechanism to be tested. His friendships with children and his interest in storytelling as performance also helped form the distinctive tone of wonder, irony, and intellectual mischief found throughout these shorter works. This collection is recommended for readers who wish to move beyond the Alice books and encounter the breadth of Carroll's imagination in concentrated form. It will especially reward lovers of Victorian nonsense, literary puzzles, fantasy, and comic prose that remains both playful and intellectually exacting.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 27, 2014
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Collected Short Stories of Lewis Carroll (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6A Tangled Tale (pt. 1)
7A Tangled Tale (pt. 2)
8Bruno’s Revenge and Other Stories (pt. 1)
9Bruno’s Revenge and Other Stories (pt. 2)
10What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
11Analysis
12Reflection
13Memorable Quotes
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