Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

lewis carroll john tenniel

A very real little girl named Alice follows a remarkable rabbit down a rabbit hole and steps through a looking-glass to come face to face with some of the strangest adventures and some of the oddest characters in all literature. The crusty Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire-Cat, Tweedledum and Tweedledee--each one is more eccentric, and more entertaining, than the last. And all of them could only have come from the pen of Lewis Carroll, one of the few adults ever to enter successfully the children's world of make-believe--a wonderland where the impossible becomes possible, the unreal, real...where the heights of adventure are limited only by the depths of imagination.
--back cover

Genres classicsfantasyfictionchildrensyoung adultliteratureadventuremiddle gradenovels19th century

240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 27,1871

Series

Alice/s Adventures in Wonderland

Places

united kingdom, england, wonderland,

This edition

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: April 1, 1960 by Signet Classic
ISBN: 9780451523204
ASIN: 0451523202
Language: English

Characters More characters

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.