Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a mathematician, photographer, deacon and children’s writer better known by his pen-name, Lewis Carroll. His bestknown books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are considered two of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank,1 and of having nothing to do2: once or twice she had peeped3 into the book her sister was reading,4 but it had no pictures or conversations in it,5 ‘and what is the use of a book’, thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversations?’6