Lewis Carroll

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1865

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood […]

"Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't believe it—"

Through the Looking-Glass

1871

Jabberwocky. / 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wa[b]e; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.

The Hunting of the Snark

1876

“Introduce me, now there’s a good fellow,” he said, / “If we happen to meet it together!” / And the Bellman, sagaciously nodding his head, / Said “That must depend on the weather.”

Sylvie and Bruno

1889

These two books—of sacred, and secular, passages for memory—will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Through the Looking-Glass

The Hunting of the Snark

Sylvie and Bruno