Lewis Carroll is a pen-name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the author's real name and he was lecturer in Mathematics in Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson began the story on 4 July 1862, when he took a journey in a rowing boat on the river Thames in Oxford together with the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, with Alice Liddell (ten years of age) the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and with her two sisters, Lorina (thirteen years of age), and Edith (eight years of age). As is clear from the poem at the beginning of the book, the three girls asked Dodgson for a story and reluctantly at first he...

This collection of documents relating to the development of American democratic in- stitutions is divided into three sections. The first part includes a series of laws or related documents running from the Magna Carta through the American Constitution. The second includes three famous addresses by American's two most famous Presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The final section includes two pamphlets on American democracy: Thomas Pane's Common Sense and General Smith's Views, a summary of Joseph Smith's political views distributed during his 1844 Presidential bid. This book is...

A fictionalized account of life in the Hong Kong mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around 1980. This book is in the Deseret Alphabet, a phonetic alphabet for writing English developed in the mid-19th century at the University of Deseret (now the University of Deseret).

"Alices Adventures in Wonderland" is a summer tale published by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) for the first time in July 1865. Many of the characters and adventures in that book have to with a pack of cards. "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" is a winter tale, which Carroll first published in December 1871. In this second tale, the characters and adventures are based on the game of chess. This book contains the famous illustrations of Sir John Tenniel, which first appeared in the original English edition. The Deseret alphabet was developed in the mid-19th...