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

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

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

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Résumé

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 Résumé

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

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 *

À propos de 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.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR001917043
9780099512073
0099512076
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Vintage Publishing
20070802
336
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