The Complete Stories and Poems of Lewis Carroll

by Lewis Carroll

Book Overview

This commemorative oversized volume of the complete collection of stories and poems of Lewis Carol showcases his ingenious use of word play, inverted logic and satire. Lewis Carroll was the pen name... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855349922
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Geddes & Grosset
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Everything you need

I bought this book from Colombia. It was shipped perfectly, and the book arrived in great condition. As a book it's everything you could ask for: great illustrations and the complete works. Nice presentation. And you get all of this for such a low price. Very good edition.

...down the rabbit hole

This book is really for the person who is really into Carroll and will read through all of his works. It's a thick volume and is useful to me, but this is because i am writing a book so i'm probably not the best judge since i have to read all of the collected works. Another astute reviewer said, "Do you really want all of the collected works?" But for the price, i say, you may as well buy the book, then you can see what you like and skip around. Who is to say or dictate that you must read cover to cover. You may find there are writings of Caroll thatyou didn't know about before - such as his poetry and so on. I own the book and find it very handy for reference but also as a genral book of interst. It's also a good gift book for adults and children alike and is a handsome volume and is not muddled up with annotations like many of Carroll's books are these days, which is fine, but more for the scholar. This is the perfect book to dip into and again, a good gift book and as a former publisher i can tell you that the price-point is excellent for what you get here. A bargain. If you like Carroll's Alice books, you may as well buy this since it will cost you more or as much to buy both of them. This way, you get both Alice books and then some. There is an argumnt right there. sadi ranson-polizzotti

Check the contents. Do you really need a COMPLETE set!

'The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works, Deluxe Edition' of lewis Carroll's works may actually be more than you really want. While three of Carroll's works, the two Alice fantasy novels and the long poem, 'The Hunting of the Snark' are major classics of English literature, Carroll wrote an equal or greater amount of pretty dull stuff, primarily the two 'Sylvia and Bruno' novels, which I have never been able to finish. My suggestion to all but the Carroll scholar and people who want to see his logical works is to buy the annotated versions of the two Alice novels and the annotated 'Snark', all annotated by Martin Gardiner. This way, you are also guaranteed of getting Henry Holiday's illustrations for 'The Hunting of the Snark', which are not in all 'Complete' collections.

Favourite books of all time

Alice has been my favourite book all my life (both volumes). It made totally different sense to me when I was 6 than it does now that I am grown up, so it has seemed like many different books to meme throughout my life! It's great to see Carroll's other works. Some of the poems are just as good as the ones in ALice. One of my favorite poems is "Hiawatha's Photographing", which is written in the style of Longfellow. The introduction, in prose, is actually written in the same eetre. Except that you don't notice that, because the punctuation is like prose, not poetry. It starts: "In an age of imitation, I can claim no special merit for this slight attempt at doing what is known to be so easy..." It's nice to have the illustrations because Carroll was very careful about the illustrations and you can see just how he pictured his works. This is a wonderful book to give as a gift either to someone else...... or yourself

wonderful

All of Lewis Carroll's books are great. And finaly you can have all of them together in one big book. A must have for everybody!