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

By Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by John Tenniel
Introduction by A. S. Byatt

By Lewis Carroll

By Lewis Carroll

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    About Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

    Introduction by A. S. Byatt
    Illustrations by John Tenniel
    Includes commissioned endnotes
     
    Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. “The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books,” writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction, “lies in language. It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children.”

    Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

    About Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

    In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature.

    Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books—with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.—by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children’s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history.

    Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing up—or down, or all turned round—as seen through the expert eyes of a child.

    About Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

    Introduction by A. S. Byatt
    Illustrations by John Tenniel
    Includes commissioned endnotes
     
    Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. “The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books,” writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction, “lies in language. It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children.”

    Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

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    “Only Lewis Carroll has shown us the world upside down as a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh.” —Virginia Woolf

    About Lewis Carroll

    Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898). He wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for the amusement of 11-year-old Alice Liddell and her two sisters, who were the daughters of the dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, where Dodgson taught mathematics…. More about Lewis Carroll

    About Lewis Carroll

    Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898). He wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for the amusement of 11-year-old Alice Liddell and her two sisters, who were the daughters of the dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, where Dodgson taught mathematics…. More about Lewis Carroll

    About Lewis Carroll

    Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898). He wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for the amusement of 11-year-old Alice Liddell and her two sisters, who were the daughters of the dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, where Dodgson taught mathematics…. More about Lewis Carroll

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Modern Library
    Dec 10, 2002 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375761386

    Mass Market Paperback
    Published by Bantam Classics
    May 01, 1984 | 272 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553213454

    Ebook
    Published by Modern Library
    Mar 28, 2012 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780553902808

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