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Carroll, the pen name of Charles Dodgson, sent Alice through a world that keeps changing the rules. The jokes are logical as often as they are whimsical.
Alice follows a rabbit and finds a world that argues with her about size, manners, and the meaning of words. Carroll wrote it for a real child and then built a classic out of the joke.
Through the Looking-Glass is the sequel to his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in which many of the characters were anthropomorphic playing cards. In this second novel the theme is chess.
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. It borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass.
Sylvie and Bruno, first published, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland HTML Edition recounts a little girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland HTML Edition is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre.