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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Penguin
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Clothbound Classics) Hardcover - 2010

by Carroll, Lewis

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Penguin Classics, 2010-03-10. Illustrated. hardcover. Used: Good.
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  • Title Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
  • Author Carroll, Lewis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Illustrated
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, New York
  • Date 2010-03-10
  • Features Bookmark, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0141192461
  • ISBN 9780141192468 / 0141192461
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.12 x 5.6 x 1.15 in (20.62 x 14.22 x 2.92 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 850
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy, Alice (Fictitious character: Carroll)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About this book

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland — have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred different editions. The books have also been adapted numerous times into films (both live-action and cartoon), plays, and musicals.

Summary


The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat—characters each more eccentric than the last that could only have come from Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense. In these two brilliant burlesques, he created two of the most famous and fantastic novels of all time that not only stirred our imagination but revolutionized literature.

From the publisher

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was a man of diverse interests - in mathematics, logic, photgraphy, art, theater, religion, medicine, and science. He was happiest in the company of children for whom he created puzzles, clever games, and charming letters.

As all Carroll admirers know, his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. The equally popular sequel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1872.

The Alice books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. The Hunting of the Snark, a classic nonsense epic (1876) and Euclid and His Modern Rivals, a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students. Sylvie and Bruno, published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness.

The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics.


Hugh Haughton is a senior lecturer at the University of York. He edited Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass for Penguin Classics.


Hugh Haughton is a senior lecturer at the University of York. He edited Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass for Penguin Classics.

First Edition Identification

Macmillian first published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 with illustrations by John Tenniel. The first print run was only 2,000 copies before it was recalled due to “print quality.” Only two dozen or so copies of the legendary “Sixty-five Alice” are now known to survive. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There was later published in 1871.

About the author

Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898). He was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford.

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