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Master of gibberish Lewis Carroll brings his inventive style of writing to life once more in the collection "Jabberwocky and Other Poems." Though most famous for his creation of Wonderland and Alice's fall into the uncanny world of the nonsensical, Carroll used his wordsmithing ability to form inventive rhymes and lexicons in this collection. Words like "bandersnatch," "chortled," "tulgey," and even "Jabberwocky" are inventions of Carroll's mind....
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Relato del inglés Lewis Carroll cuyo verdadero nombre era Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) publicado en 1865. Fruto de los cuentos que el autor improvisaba para tres niñas, una de ellas Alice Liddell de siete años. Como en el mito de Peter Pan, se basa en el anhelo y el temor a crecer. Se desarrolla según el ritmo de las canciones infantiles y plasma las fantasías y las pesadillas de la infancia. Esta obra maestra del nonsense (disparate)...
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Extrait : "Cette fois elle trouva sur la table une petite bouteille (qui certes n'était pas là tout à l'heure). Au cou de cette petite bouteille était attachée une étiquette en papier, avec ces mots « BUVEZ-MOI » admirablement imprimés en grosses lettres. C'est bien facile à dire « Buvez-moi, » mais Alice était trop fine pour obéir à l'aveuglette."
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With satire, adventure, and imagination, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems explores subjects such as the supernatural, love, friendship, and nature. Featuring sixteen of Lewis Carroll's poems, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems has something to appeal to everyone. Among this collection is A Sea Dirge, in which the speaker, equipped with evocative figurative language, explains their contempt for the sea. In Echoes, a young girl discloses her encounter with...
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