Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books) (Modern Library Giants G28)
New York: The Modern Library, 1936. Tenniel, John. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good / Good. Item #2328991
Reissue, 1966-70 printing. Toledano G028.1, binding G7, jacket Gh. Rear hinge repaired, jacket spine faded, jacket a bit rubbed, ink stamp on front endpaper.
xi, 1293, [2] pp. Contents include: Introduction by Alexander Woollcott; ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND: Down the Rabbit-Hole; The Pool of Tears; A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale; The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill; Advice from a Caterpillar; Pig and Pepper; A Mad Tea-Party; The Queen's Croquet-Ground; The Mock Turtle's Story; The Lobster-Quadrille; Who Stole the Tarts'; Alice's Evidence; THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS: Preface to the 1896 Edition; Looking-Glass House; The Garden of Live Flowers; Looking-Glass Insects; Tweedledum and Tweedledee; Wool and Water; Humpty Dumpty; The Lion and the Unicorn; "It's My Own Invention"; Queen Alice; Shaking; Waking; Which Dreamed It'; SYLVIE AND BRUNO: Preface; Less Bread! More Taxes!; L'Amie Inconnue; Birthday-Presents; A Cunning Conspiracy; A Beggar's Palace; The Magic Locket; The Baron's Embassy; A Ride on a Lion; A Jester and a Bear; The Other Professor; Peter and Paul; A Musical Gardener; A Visit to Dogland; Fairy-Sylvie; Bruno's Revenge; A Changed Crocodile; The Three Badgers; Queer Street, Number Forty; How To Make a Phlizz; Light Come, Light Go; Through the Ivory Door; Crossing the Line; An Outlandish Watch; The Frogs' Birthday-Treat; Looking Eastward; SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED: Preface; Bruno's Lessons; Love's Curfew; Streaks of Dawn; The Dog-King; Matilda Jane; Willie's Wife; Mein Herr; In a Shady Place; The Farewell-Party; Jabbering and Jam; The Man in the Moon; Fairy-Music; What Tottles Meant; Bruno's Picnic; The Little Foxes; Beyond These Voices; To the Rescue!; A Newspaper-Cutting; A Fairy-Duet; Gammon and Spinach; The Professor's Lecture; The Banquet; The Pig-Tale; The Beggar's Return; Life Out of Death; VERSE -- THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK: Preface; Fit the First (The Landing); Fit the Second (The Bellman's Speech); Fit the Third (The Baker's Tale); Fit the Fourth (The Hunting); Fit the Fifth (The Beaver's Lesson); Fit the Sixth (The Barrister's Dream); Fit the Seventh (The Banker's Fate); Fit the Eighth (The Vanishing); EARLY VERSE: My Fairy; Punctuality; Melodies; Brother and Sister; Facts; Rules and Regulations; Horrors; Misunderstandings; As It Fell Upon a Day; Ye Fattale Cheyse; Lays of Sorrow, No. 1; Lays of Sorrow, No. 2; The Two Brothers; The Lady of the Ladle; Coronach; She's All My Fancy Painted Him; Photography Extraordinary; Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour, No. 1: The Palace of Humbug; The Mock Turtle's Song (Early version); Upon the Lonely Moor; Miss Jones; PUZZLES FROM WONDERLAND: Puzzles; Solutions; PROLOGUES TO PLAYS: Prologue to "La Guida di Bragia"; Prologue; Prologue; PHANTASMAGORIA: Phantasmagoria: Canto I: The Trysting; Canto II: Hys Fyve Rules; Canto III: Scarmoges; Canto IV: Hys Nouryture; Canto V: Byckerment; Canto VI: Dyscomfyture; Canto VII: Sad Souvenaunce; Echoes; A Sea Dirge; Ye Carpette Knyghte; Hiawatha's Photographing; Melancholetta; A Valentine; The Three Voices; Theme with Variations; A Game of Fives; Poeta Fit, non Nascitur; Size and Tears; Atalanta in Camden-Town; The Lang Coortin'; Four Riddles; Fame's Penny-Trumpet; COLLEGE RHYMES AND NOTES BY AN OXFORD CHIEL: Ode to Damon; Those Horrid Hurdy-Gurdies!; My Fancy; The Majesty of Justice; The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council; The Deserted Park; Examination Statute; ACROSTICS, INSCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER VERSE: Acrostic: Little maidens, when you look; To three puzzle little Girls, from the Author; Double Acrostic: I sing a place wherein agree; Three Little Maids; Puzzle; Three Children; Two Thieves; Two Acrostics: Round the wondrous globe / Maidens, if a maid you meet; Double acrostic: Two little girls near London dwell; Acrostic: "Are you deaf, Father William'"; Acrostic: Maidens! if you love the tale; Acrostic: Love-lighted eyes, that will not start; To M.A.B.; Acrostic: Maiden, though thy heart may quail; Madrigal; Love among the Roses; Two Poems to Rachel Daniel; The Lyceum; Acrostic: Around my lonely hearth, to-night; Dreamland; To my Child-Friend; A Riddle; A Limerick; Rhyme' and Reason'; A Nursery Darling; Maggie's Visit to Oxford; Maggie B-; THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS: Three Sunsets; The Path of Roses; The Valley of the Shadow of Death; Solitude; Beatrice; Stolen Waters; The Willow-Tree; Only a Woman's Hair; The Sailor's Wife; After Three Days; Faces in the Fire; A Lesson in Latin; Puck Lost and Found; STORIES: A Tangled Tale; Novelty and Romancement; A Photographer's Day Out; Wilhelm von Schmitz; The Legend of Scotland; A MISCELLANY: The Offer of the Clarendon Trustees; The New Method of Evaluation; The Dynamics of a Parti-cle; The New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford; The Vision of the Three T's; The Blank Cheque; Twelve Months in a Curatorship; Three Years in a Curatorship; Resident Women-Students; Some Popular Fallacies about Vivisection; Lawn Tennis Tournaments; Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing; What the Tortoise Said to Achilles; The Two Clocks; Photography Extraordinary; Hints of Etiquette, or, Dining Out Made Easy; A Hemispherical Problem; A Selection from Symbolic Logic; Rules for Court Circular; Croquet Castles; Mischmasch; Doublets; A Postal Problem; The Alphabet Cipher; Introduction to The Lost Plum Cake; INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF VERSE.
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