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Lewis Carroll. Through The Looking Glass
History of Collins
Life & Times. About the Author
The Victorian Era
Themes of the Book
Poem
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 Looking-Glass House
CHAPTER 2 The Garden of Live Flowers
CHAPTER 3 Looking-Glass Insects
CHAPTER 4 Tweedledum and Tweedledee
CHAPTER 5 Wool and Water
CHAPTER 6 Humpty Dumpty
CHAPTER 7 The Lion and the Unicorn
CHAPTER 8 ‘It’s My Own Invention’
CHAPTER 9 Queen Alice
CHAPTER 10 Shaking
CHAPTER 11 Waking
CHAPTER 12 Which Dreamed It?
AFTERWORD
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
Copyright
About the Publisher
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In 1819, Millworker William Collins from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a company for printing and publishing pamphlets, sermons, hymn books and prayer books. That company was Collins and was to mark the birth of HarperCollins Publishers as we know it today. The long tradition of Collins dictionary publishing can be traced back to the first dictionary William published in 1824, Greek and English Lexicon. Indeed, from 1840 onwards, he began to produce illustrated dictionaries and even obtained a licence to print and publish the Bible.
Soon after, William published the first Collins novel, Ready Reckoner, however it was the time of the Long Depression, where harvests were poor, prices were high, potato crops had failed and violence was erupting in Europe. As a result, many factories across the country were forced to close down and William chose to retire in 1846, partly due to the hardships he was facing.
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He took his vorpal sword in hand:Long time the manxome foe he sought –So rested he by the Tumtum tree,And stood awhile in thought
And as in uffish thought he stood,The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,Came whiffing through the tulgey wood,And burbled as it came!
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