Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll

Name: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass By Lewis Carroll
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Summary

At the bottom she finds herself in a bizarre world full of strange creatures, and attends a very strange tea party and croquet match. This immensely witty and unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, to provide an astute depiction of the experience of childhood.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Summary

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF ALICE

Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole. At the bottom she finds herself in a bizarre world full of strange creatures, and attends a very strange tea party and croquet match. This immensely witty and unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, to provide an astute depiction of the experience of childhood.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Reviews

A book of wonder and nonsense laced with lethal wit * Guardian *
Without these two books in my childhood I doubt whether my imagination would have developed at all -- Kate Atkinson
A marvellous confidence in the primacy of the imagination -- Will Self
Two nightmare destinations. Wonderland and Looking Glass. The more I read these books, the darker they shine.. Carroll operates on language like a cruel, crazy surgeon -- Jeff Noon
Precise, dream-like, subversive -- Quentin Blake * Independent on Sunday *

About Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was born on 27th January 1832 at Daresbury in Cheshire. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford University and later became a mathematics lecturer there. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872) for the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. He was very fond of puzzles and some readers have found mathematical jokes and codes hidden in his Alice books. His other works include Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869), The Hunting of the Snark (1876), Rhyme? And Reason? (1882), The Game of Logic (1887) and Sylvie and Bruno (1889, 1893). Dodgson was also an influential photographer. He died on 14th January 1898.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001917043

ISBN 13

9780099512073

ISBN 10

0099512076

Title

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Author

Lewis Carroll

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20070802

Number of pages

336

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

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