Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Lewis Carroll

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9781853260025: Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Wordsworth Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1853260029 ISBN 13: 9781853260025
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses.

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About the Author

Lewis Carroll, a.k.a. Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), is the author of the classic children's stories Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Dodgson served as a clergyman and mathematician at Christ Church College, his alma mater in Oxford, England, for almost fifty years. Angel Dominguez has been a professional artist since 1971, illustrating several children's stories and wildlife books in his native Spain. His work has been published in English by Michael O'Mara Books and Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, and by Arcade Publishing, New York. Dominguez was born in Vizcaya, where he lives today with his wife and two children.

From the Back Cover

When Alice follows a White Rabbit, she tumbles down a hole and lands in a mixed-up Wonderland, filled with strange creatures and even stranger characters.

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Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1853260029
ISBN 13 
9781853260025
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288
Rating
  • 4.06 out of 5 stars
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