Alice's Adventures in Wonderland #1-2
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disordered tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood. Original and experimental, the Alice books give readers a window on both child and adult worlds.
This is the most comprehensively annotated edition available and includes the manuscript version of Alice's Adventures Under Ground and Carroll's 1887 essay '"Alice" on the Stage'.
378 pages, Paperback
First published December 27,1871
This edition
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378 pages, Paperback
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March 27, 2003 by Penguin Books
- ISBN
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9780141439761
- ASIN
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0141439769
- Language
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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The White Rabbit (lewis Carroll)
The White Rabbit is a fictional character in Lewis Carrolls book Alices Adventures in Wonderland.more...
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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...
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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
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.
