THE UNIVERSAL COMPENDIUM






The Works of Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (pseud. Lewis Carroll) (27 January 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England– 14 January 1898, Guildford, Surrey, England), writer, mathematician and pioneering photographer.

I. NOVELS

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

Chapters

1

'Down the Rabbit-Hole'

7

'A Mad Tea-Party'

2

'The Pool of Tears'

8

'The Queen's Croquet-Ground' 

3

'A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale'

9

'The Mock Turtle's Story'

4

'The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill'

10

'The Lobster Quadrille'

5

'Advice from a Caterpillar'

11

'Whole Stole the Tarts?'

6

'Pig and Pepper'

12

'Alice's Evidence'

Through the Looking-Glass (1872)

Chapters

1

'The Looking-Glass House'

7

'The Lion and the Unicorn'

2

'The Garden of Live Flowers'

8

'It's My Own Invention'

3

'Looking-Glass Insects'

9

'Queen Alice'

4

'Tweedledum and Tweedledee'

10

'Shaking'

5

'Wool and Water'

11

'Waking'

6

'Humpty Dumpty'

12

'Which Dreamed It?'

Sylvie and Bruno (1889)

Chapters

 

[Preface]

13

'A Visit to Dogland'

1

'Less Bread! More Taxes!'

14

'Fairy-Sylvie'

2

'L'Amie Inconnue'

15

'Bruno's Revenge'

3

'Birthday-Presents'

16

'A Changed Crocodile'

4

'A Cunning Conspiracy'

17

'The Three Badgers'

5

'A Beggar's Palace'

18

'Queer Street, Number Forty'

6

'The Magic Locket'

19

'How To Make a Phlizz'

7

'The Baron's Embassy'

20

'Light Come, Light Go'

8

'A Ride on a Lion'

21

'Through the Ivory Door'

9

'A Jester and a Bear'

22

'Crossing the Line'

10

'The Other Professor'

23

'An Outlandish Watch'

11

'Peter and Paul'

24

'The Frogs' Birthday-Treat'

12

'A Musical Gardener'

25

'Looking Eastward'

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893)

Chapters

 

[Preface]

13

'What Tottles Meant'

1

'Bruno's Lessons'

14

'Bruno's Picnic'

2

'Love's Curfew'

15

'The Little Foxes'

3

'Streaks of Dawn'

16

'Beyond These Voices'

4

'The Dog-King'

17

'To the Rescue!'

5

'Matilda Jane'

18

'A Newspaper-Cutting'

6

'Willie's Wife'

19

'A Fairy-Duet'

7

'Mein Herr'

20

'Gammon and Spinach'

8

'In a Shady Place'

21

'The Professor's Lecture'

9

'The Farewell-Party'

22

'The Banquet'

10

'Jabbering and Jam'

23

'The Pig-Tale'

11

'The Man in the Moon'

24

'The Beggar's Return'

12

'Fairy-Music'

25

'Life Out of Death'

II. VERSE

Early Verse

'My Fairy'

1845

'Punctuality'

1845

'Melodies'

1845

'Brother and Sister'

1845

'Facts'

1845

'Rules and Regulations'

1845

'Horrors'

1850

'Misunderstandings'

1850

'As It Fell Upon a Day'

1850

'Ye Fattale Cheyse'

1850-53

'Lays of Sorrow, No. 1'

1850-53

'Lays of Sorrow, No. 2'

1850-53

'The Two Brothers'

1853

'The Lady of the Ladle'

1854

'Coronach'

1854

'She's All My Fancy Painted Him'

1855

'Photography Extraordinary'

1855

'Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour, No. 1: The Palace of Humbug'

1855

'Upon the Lonely Moor'

1856

'The Mock Turtle's Song' (Early version)

1862

'Miss Jones'

[?]

Poems

'Solitude'

1853

'Ye Carpette Knyghte'

1856

'The Three Voices'

1856

'The Path of Roses'

1856

'Hiawatha's Photographing'

1857

'The Sailor's Wife'

1857

'The Willow Tree'

1859

'Faces in the Fire'

1860

'A Valentine'

1860

'Poeta Fit, non Nascitur'

1860-63

'A Sea Dirge'

1861

'Three Sunsets'

1861

'After Three Days'

1861

'Beatrice'

1862

'Stolen Waters'

1862

'Only a Woman's Hair'

1862

'Size and Tears'

1863

'The Valley of the Shadow of Death'

1868

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'

1869

'Melancholetta'

1869

'Theme with Variations'

1869

'Atalanta in Camden-Town'

1869

'The Lang Coortin'

1869

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 Pate'
   'Fit The Eighth: The Vanishing'

1876

'Fame's Penny-Trumpet'

1876

'Echoes'

1882

'A Game of Fives'

1883

'A Lesson in Latin'

1888

'Puck Lost and Found'

1891

'Four Riddles'

[?]

College Rhymes

'Ode to Damon'

1861

'Those Horrid Hurdy-Gurdies!'

1861

'My Fancy'

1862

'The Majesty of Justice'

1863

'Examination Statute'

1864

Notes by an Oxford Chiel

'The Evaluation of TT'

1865

'The Dynamics of a Particle'

1865

'The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council'

1866

'Facts, Figures and Fancies'

1866-68

'The Deserted Parks'

1867

'The New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford'

1872

'The Vision of the Three T's'

1873

'The Blank Cheque'

1874

Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verse

Acrostic: 'Little maidens, when you look'

1861

'To three puzzled little Girls, from the Author'

1869

Double Acrostic: 'I sing a place wherein agree'

1869

'Three Little Maids'

1869

'Three Children'

1871

'Two Thieves'

1872

Acrostic: 'Are you deaf, Father William?'

1876

Acrostic: 'Maidens! if you love the tale'

1876

Acrostic: 'Love-lighted eyes, that will not start'

1876

Acrostic: 'Maiden, though thy heart may quail'

1876

'Madrigal'

1877

'Love among the Roses'

1878

'Two Poems to Rachel Daniel'

1880, 1881

'The Lyceum'

1881

'Dreamland'

1882

'Rhyme? and Reason?'

1883

'To my Child-Friend'

1886

'A Nursery Darling'

1889

'Maggie's Visit to Oxford'

1889

'Maggie B—'

1891

'Puzzle'

[?]

Acrostic: 'Round the wondrous globe'

[?]

Acrostic: 'Maidens, if a maid you meet'

[?]

Acrostic: 'Around my lonely hearth, to-night'

[?]

Double Acrostic: 'Two little girls near London dwell'

[?]

'A Riddle'

[?]

'A Limerick'

[?]

'To M.A.B.'

[?]

III. STORIES

'Wilhelm von Schmitz'

1854

'Novelty and Romancement'

1856

'The Legend of Scotland'

1856-60

'A Photographer's Day Out'

1860

'A Tangled Tale'

1880

IV. MISCELLANY

'Hints of Etiquette, or, Dining Out Made Easy'

1849

'A Hemispherical Problem'

1849

'Photography Extraordinary'

1855

'Rules for Court Circular'

1860

'Croquet Castles'

1863

'The New Method of Evaluation'

1864

'The Offer of the Clarendon Trustees'

1868

'The Alphabet Cipher'

1868

'Some Popular Fallacies about Vivisection'

1875

'Doublets'

1879

'Mischmasch'

1882

'Lawn Tennis Tournaments'

1883

'Twelve Months in a Curatorship'

1884

'Three Years in a Curatorship'

1886

'Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing'

1890

'A Postal Problem'

1891

'What the Tortoise Said to Achilles'

1894

'A Selection from Symbolic Logic'

1895

'Resident Women-Students'

1896

'Introduction to The Lost Plum Cake'

1897

Puzzles from Wonderland:
   'Puzzles'
   'Solutions'

1870

'The Two Clocks'

[?]

Plays

Prologue to La Guida di Bragia

1871

Prologue ('Enter Beatrice leading Wilfred.')

1871

Prologue ('Miss Beatrice and Ethel Hatch, daughters of Dr. Edwin Hatch...')

1873



Sources

Carroll, L. The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll. New York: Modern Library, 1936.

Carroll, L. Notes by an Oxford Chiel. Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1874.

Susina, J. The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature. New York: Routledge, 2010.

Williams, S. and F. Madan. The Lewis Carroll Handbook. Folkestone, England: Dawson, 1979.

Wilson, R. Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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