Lewis Carroll

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By Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Hiawatha Takes a Photograph by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll records a suburban photoshoot in the style of Longfellow.

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Alice gets an English Lesson by Lewis Carroll

Alice meets Humpty Dumpty, and it turns out that she has been using words wrong all her life.

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© Adrian Platt, Geogaph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

The White Queen’s Riddle by Lewis Carroll

Alice was set a poetical test of wits by the kindly (but like all the other characters, utterly maddening) White Queen.

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From the Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

The Caucus Race by Lewis Carroll

Alice experiences for herself the very definition of a pointless exercise.

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