Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

lewis carroll john tenniel

Oxford mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson began to extemporise a fantastic story about a girl called Alice to amuse Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell, young daughters of the Dean of Christchurch, during a boating trip in the summer of 1862. The two books which resulted fairly turned children's literature upside down. No plot so wildly inventive, no nonsense so brilliant and inspired, no characters like the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and the Mock Turtle had ever existed before - and all of it without a hint of Moral Purpose!

Lewis Carroll's masterpiece continues to entertain children and to tease and intrigue adults, and - defying all the difficulties posed by a narrative so full of puns, parody and wordplay - has been translated hundreds of times. Sir John Tenniel complained that Dodgson - 'that conceited old Don' - an impossible man to work with, but his illustrations proved such perfect realizations of the text that they have become inseparable. No edition of the Alice books can be called complete without them.

Genres classicsfantasyfictionchildrensyoung adultliteratureadventuremiddle gradenovels19th century

326 pages, Hardcover

First published December 27,1871

Series

Alice/s Adventures in Wonderland

Places

united kingdom, england, wonderland,

This edition

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
Published: November 20, 1992 by Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857159042
ASIN: 1857159047
Language: English

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The Hatter (lewis Carroll)

The Hatter (called Hatta in Through the Looking-Glass) is a fictional character in Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland and the storys sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He is often referred to as the Mad Hatter, though this ter...
The Queen Of Hearts (lewis Carroll)

The Queen of Hearts is a fictional character from the book Alices Adventures in Wonderland by the writer Lewis Carroll. She is a foul-tempered monarch whom Carroll himself describes as "a blind fury", and who is quick to give death sentences at the ...
The Cheshire Cat (lewis Carroll)

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alices Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin.more...
The White Rabbit (lewis Carroll)

The White Rabbit is a fictional character in Lewis Carrolls book Alices Adventures in Wonderland.more...
Humpty Dumpty (lewis Carroll)

Humpty Dumpty appears in Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking-Glass (1872). Alices remark that he is "exactly like an egg" he finds "very provoking"; Alice clarifies that she said he looks like an egg, not that he is one. more...
Tweedledum And Tweedledee (lewis Carroll)(goodreads)

Fictional characters. Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two characters found in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an ep...

About the author

lewis carroll

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

He also has works published under his real name.