The Complete Novels of Lewis Carroll (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Illustrated Edition - Including Biography of the Author "The Life of Lewis Carroll"By Lewis Carroll
Length31h 38m
About this audiobook
The Complete Novels of Lewis Carroll gathers the fiction through which Charles Lutwidge Dodgson transformed Victorian children's literature: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and the more meditative Sylvie and Bruno books. These works combine dream narrative, parody, mathematical paradox, wordplay, and philosophical nonsense into a style at once playful and exacting. Carroll's fiction belongs to the high Victorian age, yet it unsettles its assumptions, turning schoolroom logic, etiquette, empire, and moral instruction into dazzling comic puzzles. Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician, logician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. His intellectual training deeply shaped his imaginative writing: syllogisms become jokes, chessboards become worlds, and language itself becomes an unstable mechanism. His friendships with children, especially Alice Liddell, helped inspire the Alice stories, while his later fiction reflects a more complex concern with innocence, ethics, memory, and spiritual feeling. This volume is recommended for readers who want more than charming fantasy. It offers a complete view of Carroll's narrative art, from the crystalline brilliance of Alice to the stranger ambitions of Sylvie and Bruno. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find here a foundational body of modern imaginative literature.
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
GenreChildren's Literature
Length31 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2019
LanguageEnglish
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