Many people first take an interest in the Cornish language because they are curious to learn more about the distinctive and fascinating place names of Cornwall. The key to understanding the meaning of these place-names is language. Most derive from the Cornish language primarily, but many of them have their roots in Old English, Middle English, French, and other languages which have left their mark on Cornwall. Through the tireless and exacting work of place-name specialists, the secrets of Cornish place-names are being unlocked for everyone. This dictionary offers in a concise format more...

This new edition of Mayhew and Skeat's "A Concise Dictionary of Middle English" has been revised and completely reset for the modern reader. It offers more than 11,000 headwords with source references, cross references, and etymologies.

Excuse me, said Alice to a small grey Mouse in red shorts. What precisely is a custard race? -- Did Alice s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass leave you yearning for more? Join Alice on a new journey and meet the extraordinary inhabitants of Wonderland, both familiar and new. If your bed turned into a boat, and you found yourself drifting off in an entirely unexpected manner, how would you find your way home? The Jack of Diamonds says it s Alice s own fault for being fast asleep -- had she slept more slowly, she wouldn t be so far from home The Red Queen, the Mah-jong...

"The Hunting of the Snark" was first published in 1876, eleven years after "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and four years after "Through the Looking-Glass." It is a master-piece of nonsense and is connected to "Through the Looking-Glass" by its use of vocabulary from the poem "Jabberwocky." "The Hunting of the Snark" is a strangely dark poem, and some critics believe that its themes-insanity and death-are rather too adult in nature for children's literature. We know, nonetheless, that Lewis Carroll intended the poem to be enjoyed by children: he dedicated the book in acrostic verse to his...

This new edition of Jenner's classic "Handbook of the Cornish Language" appears more than a century after the book's first publication. Now that the Cornish Revival has weathered many storms, it is well worth making Jenner's ground-breaking work available again, copies of the 1904 edition having become rare and expensive. The book is not a mere facsimile. It contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), to assist the modern reader in understanding exactly which sounds Jenner was recommending. It also includes three articles he published between 1873 and 1877,...

In the early twentieth century, great books were often "retold in words of one syllable" so that the language would be easier for beginning readers. In this adaptation, Mrs J. C. Gorham "cheats" only a little, hyphenating some longer words that couldn't be avoided-but the text remains a lively and enjoyable retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic tale. Recommended for young readers and for adult literacy classes. -- Mrs J. C. Gorham, alas, is known to us only by her married name-and this means, by the usual practice of the time, that her husband was named J. C. Nevertheless, Mrs Gorham is...

Caroline Lewis is a pen-name, that of the team of Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and M. H. Temple, who wrote both "Clara in Wonderland" and a sequel, "Lost in Wonderland." These two novels deal with British frustration and anger about the Boer War and with Britain's political leadership at the beginning of the twentieth century. -- But this book is not a stuffy study in early twentieth-century British politics -- it is a splendid parody, amusing as much for what it parodies as for its reflection of Lewis Carroll's originals, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the...

Caroline Lewis is a pen-name, that of the team of Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and M. H. Temple, who wrote two novels dealing with British frustration and anger about the Boer War and with Britain's political leadership at the beginning of the twentieth century. "Clara in Blunderland" details the adventures of Arthur Balfour while being groomed to become Prime Minister -- "Lost in Blunderland"'s Clara is Balfour once he got the job. But you don't need to be an expert in early twentieth-century British politics to enjoy either book -- the story's parody of Lewis Carroll's...

Llysenw yw Lewis Carroll: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson oedd enw iawn yr awdur a oedd yn ddarlithydd mewn Mathemateg yng Ngholeg Eglwys Crist, Rhydychen. Cychwynnodd Dodgson y stori ar 4 Gorffennaf 1862, pan aeth ar daith mewn cwch rhwyfo ar afon Tafwys yn Rhydychen gyda'r Parchedig Robinson Duckworth, Alice Liddell (deng mlwydd oed), merch Deon Coleg Eglwys Crist, a chyda'i dwy chwaer, Lorina (tair blwydd ar ddeg oed), ac Edith (wyth mlwydd oed). Fel sy'n amlwg o'r gerdd ar ddechrau'r llyfr, gofynnodd y tair merch i Dodgson adrodd stori, ac o'i anfodd i gychwyn dechreuodd adrodd fersiwn cyntaf y...

John Rae was an American author and illustrator who lived from 1882 to 1963. He wrote and illustrated "New Adventures of Alice," "Grasshopper Green and The Meadow Mice," and "Granny Goose," and was noted for his portraits of Carl Sandburg and Albert Einstein. This charming book, written in 1917, fulfils Rae's own wish that Carroll had written another book about Wonderland. In it Alice's new adventures consist of visits to a number of Mother Goose characters, as well as to a remarkable artist, a poet, and a printer-characters certainly familiar to John Rae himself.