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

Author: Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel and A.S. Byatt   Series: Modern Library Classics

Alice falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters; and, after climbing through a mirror, Alice enters a world similar to a chess board.

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Alice falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters; and, after climbing through a mirror, Alice enters a world similar to a chess board.

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Description

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....

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Awards

Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003

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Critic Reviews

“"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”

“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

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About the Author

"Lewis Carroll," creator of the brilliantly witty Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was a pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford don with a stammer.He was born at Daresbury, Cheshire on January 27, 1832, son of a vicar. As the eldest boy among eleven children, he learned early to amuse his siblings by writing and editing family magazines. He was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford, where he lectured in mathematics from1855 to 1881. In 1861 he was ordained as a deacon.Dodgson's entry into the world of fiction was accidental. It happened one "golden afternoon" as he escorted his colleague's three daughters on a trip up the river Isis. There he invented the story that might have been forgotten if not for the persistence of the youngest girl, Alice Liddell. Thanks to her, and to her encouraging friends, Alice was published in 1865, with drawings by the political cartoonist, John Tenniel. After Alice, Dodgson wrote Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869), Through the Looking-Glass (1871), The Hunting of Shark (1876, and Rhyme? and Reason? (1883).As a mathematician Dodgson is best known for Euclid and His Modern Rivals (1879). He was also a superb children's photographer, who captured the delicate, sensuous beauty of such little girls as Alice Liddell and Ellen Terry, the future actress. W.H. Auden called him "one of the best portrait photographer of the century." Dodgson was also an inventor; his projects included a game of arithmetic croquet, a substitute for glue, and an apparatus for making notes in the dark. Though he sought publication for his light verse, he never dreamed his true gift-telling stories to children-merited publication or lasting fame, and he avoided publicity scrupulously Charles Dodgson died in 1898 of influenza.

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Product Details

Publisher
Random House USA Inc | Modern Library Inc
Published
10th December 2002
Pages
304
ISBN
9780375761386

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