Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Book

'Jabberwocky' is the title of a poem by Lewis Carroll in his book Through the Looking Glass which features the Jabberwock, a ferocious mythical monster.

In Tim Burton's 2010 movie, Alice in Wonderland, the creature's name has been changed from 'the Jabberwock' to 'the Jabberwocky'.

In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty says this:

But in an earlier publication, Carroll defined 'mome' in this way:

Lewis Carroll

It is part of the poem Jabberwocky:

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

The Walrus was the Carpenter's friend.

The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand;
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
"If this were only cleared away,"
They said, "it would be grand!"

-Excerpt from:

The Walrus and The Carpenter

Lewis Carroll

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

Whilst C S Lewis is most famous for the Chronicles of Narnia, he wrote many more fiction and non-fiction works.

Fiction works include:

• "Pilgrim's Regress", an unorthodox take on John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", but which was based on his own experiences with his departure from and return to Christianity
• The science-fiction "Space" trilogy, comprising "Out of the Silent Planet", "Perelandra" - also known as "Voyage to Venus" - and "That Hideous Strength"
• "The Screwtape Letters", in which an elderly demon, Screwtape, instructs his nephew, Wormwood, via a series of letters on the best ways to secure the damnation of a particular human

Non-fiction and theological works include (among others):

• The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition(1936)
• Rehabilitations and other essays (1939) - with two essays not included in Essay Collection (2000)
• The Personal Heresy: A Controversy (with E. M. W. Tillyard, 1939)
• The Problem of Pain (1940)
• A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942)
• The Abolition of Man (1943)
• Beyond Personality (1944)
• Miracles (book)|Miracles: A Preliminary Study (1947, revised 1960)
• Arthurian Torso (1948; on Charles Williams (UK writer)|Charles Williams's poetry)
• Mere Christianity (1952; based on radio talks of 1941 - 1944)
• English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama (1954);
• Major British Writers, Vol I (1954), Contribution on Edmund Spenser
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955; autobiography)
• Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
• The Four Loves (1960)
• Studies in Words (1960)
• An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
• A Grief Observed (1961; first published under the pseudonym «N. W. Clerk»)
• They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses(1962) (All essays found in Essay Collection (2000)
• Selections from Layamon's Brut (ed. G L Brook, 1963 Oxford University Press) introduction
• The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964)
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966) - not included in Essay Collection (2000)
• Spenser's Images of Life (ed. Alastair Fowler, 1967)
• Letters to an American Lady (1967)

For information on CS Lewis's books, see the link below.

If we're talking about Lewis Carroll's version found in Through the Looking Glass, which reads:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

All the King's horses and all the King's men

Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.

Two proper nouns are used five times in all (Humpty Dumpty, King) and five nouns are used once each. (wall, fall, horses, men, place)

That's for the entire poem, though. For the sentence given in the question one proper noun is used twice (Humpty Dumpty) and two nouns are used once each. (wall, fall)

There is no evidence to suggest that Through the Looking Glass is banned.

There are claims that the first book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been banned in the past.

Banned Books Week: September 25--October 2. University of California, San Diego Social Sciences & Humanities Library website says:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
1900
Suspended from classroom use, pending review, at the Woodsville High School in Haverhill, New Hampshire, because the novel contains expletives, references to masturbation and sexual fantasies, and derogatory characterizations of a teachers and of religious ceremonies.
1931
Banned by the Chinese Governor of Hunan Province on the ground that "Animals should not use human language, and that it was disastrous to put animals and human beings on the same level."

However, as they don't provide a source for this information, it is impossible to verify.

The File Room, a website dedicated to the cataloging of banned literature, repeats the claim about the book being banned in Hunan Province and cites its source as Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B. Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978. (See Related Link below) This appears to be the origin of claims that the book was banned in China, but corroborative evidence remains elusive.

When Alice meets the Cheshire Cat he gives her directions to the Hatter's house and the March Hare's house. Alice decides to visit the March Hare on the grounds that, as she's seen hatters before, meeting a march hare will be more interesting. She recognizes the hare's house as it resembles a hare.

`In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, `lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, `lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'

....after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare was said to live. `I've seen hatters before,' she said to herself; `the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be raving mad--at least not so mad as it was in March.'

....She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, because the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur.

Time, which is represented as though it were a real person, is angry with the Hatter and has fixed things so that it is always six o'clock and therefore always teatime.

Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'

`If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting IT. It's HIM.'...

'Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!'...

`We quarrelled last March--just before HE went mad, you know--' (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,)...

`And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, `he won't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.'

A bright idea came into Alice's head. `Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?' she asked.

`Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: `it's always tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles.'

Lewis Carroll gave this explanation of the word burble in a letter written in 1877:

Then again, as to 'burble' if you take the three verbs 'bleat, murmur, and warble' then select the bits I have underlined, it certainly makes 'burble' though I am afraid I can't distinctly remember having made it in that way.

However, the word burble pre-existed the poem Jabberwocky as a variant of bubble, for example 'the burbling brook', and also meant ' to perplex, confuse or muddle'

source: The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner

In the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter, the carpenter is referred to as 'the Carpenter' throughout.

Some critics have suggested that he is a metaphor for that other famous carpenter, Jesus Christ, and that the whole poem is a critique of organised religion, with the Carpenter representing Western religion and the Walrus representing Eastern religion, owning to his apparent resemblance to Buddha or the Hindu god Ganesha. However, this is known to be incorrect as Carroll didn't chose the name of the Carpenter, his illustrator John Tenniel did. Carroll was only interested in the meter of the word and presented Tenniel with three choices; carpenter, butterfly and baronet. Tenniel selected carpenter.

The sun was shining on the sea,

Shining with all his might:

He did his very best to make

The billows smooth and bright--

And this was odd, because it was

The middle of the night.

The moon was shining sulkily,

Because she thought the sun

Had got no business to be there

After the day was done--

"It's very rude of him," she said,

"To come and spoil the fun!"

The sea was wet as wet could be,

The sands were dry as dry.

You could not see a cloud, because

No cloud was in the sky:

No birds were flying overhead--

There were no birds to fly.

The Walrus and the Carpenter

Were walking close at hand;

They wept like anything to see

Such quantities of sand:

"If this were only cleared away,"

They said, "it would be grand!"

"If seven maids with seven mops

Swept it for half a year.

Do you suppose," the Walrus said,

"That they could get it clear?"

"I doubt it," said the Carpenter,

And shed a bitter tear.

"O Oysters, come and walk with us!"

The Walrus did beseech.

"A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk,

Along the briny beach:

We cannot do with more than four,

To give a hand to each."

The eldest Oyster looked at him,

But never a word he said:

The eldest Oyster winked his eye,

And shook his heavy head--

Meaning to say he did not choose

To leave the oyster-bed.

But four young Oysters hurried up,

All eager for the treat:

Their coats were brushed, their faces washed,

Their shoes were clean and neat--

And this was odd, because, you know,

They hadn't any feet.

Four other Oysters followed them,

And yet another four;

And thick and fast they came at last,

And more, and more, and more--

All hopping through the frothy waves,

And scrambling to the shore.

The Walrus and the Carpenter

Walked on a mile or so,

And then they rested on a rock

Conveniently low:

And all the little Oysters stood

And waited in a row.

"The time has come," the Walrus said,

"To talk of many things:

Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--

Of cabbages--and kings--

And why the sea is boiling hot--

And whether pigs have wings."

"But wait a bit," the Oysters cried,

"Before we have our chat;

For some of us are out of breath,

And all of us are fat!"

"No hurry!" said the Carpenter.

They thanked him much for that.

"A loaf of bread," the Walrus said,

"Is what we chiefly need:

Pepper and vinegar besides

Are very good indeed--

Now if you're ready, Oysters dear,

We can begin to feed."

"But not on us!" the Oysters cried,

Turning a little blue.

"After such kindness, that would be

A dismal thing to do!"

"The night is fine," the Walrus said.

"Do you admire the view?

"It was so kind of you to come!

And you are very nice!"

The Carpenter said nothing but

"Cut us another slice:

I wish you were not quite so deaf--

I've had to ask you twice!"

"It seems a shame," the Walrus said,

"To play them such a trick,

After we've brought them out so far,

And made them trot so quick!"

The Carpenter said nothing but

"The butter's spread too thick!"

"I weep for you," the Walrus said:

"I deeply sympathize."

With sobs and tears he sorted out

Those of the largest size,

Holding his pocket-handkerchief

Before his streaming eyes.

"O Oysters," said the Carpenter,

"You've had a pleasant run!

Shall we be trotting home again?'

But answer came there none--

And this was scarcely odd, because

They'd eaten every one.