Alice in Wonderland - Hardcover

Carroll, Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568522568 ISBN 13: 9781568522562

Publisher: Konecky & Konecky Military Books, 1999

Synopsis

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, writing under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, bequeathed to the world a singular treasure with Alice and her adventures in Wonderland. He has left us a record of how Alice came to be written: "I distinctly remember, now as I write, how in a desperate attempt to strike out some new line of fairy-lore, I had sent my heroine down a rabbit hole, without the least idea of what was to happen afterwards...Full many a year has slipped away, since that 'golden afternoon' that gave thee birth, but I can call it up as if it were yesterday - the cloudless blue above, the watery mirror below, the boat drifting idly on its way, the tinkle of the drops that fell from the oars, as they waved so sleepily to and fro, and (the one bright gleam of light in all the slumbrous scene) the three eager faces hungry for news of fairy-land and who would not be said 'Nay' to; from whose lips 'Tell us a story, please,' had all the stern immutability of fate."

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Review:

Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.

For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter

From the Publisher:

This book is in Electronic Paperback Format. If you view this book on any of the computer systems below, it will look like a book. Simple to run, no program to install. Just put the CD in your CDROM drive and start reading. The simple easy to use interface is child tested at pre-school levels.

Windows 3.11, Windows/95, Windows/98, OS/2 and MacIntosh and Linux with Windows Emulation.

Includes Quiet Vision's Dynamic Index. the abilty to build a index for any set of characters or words.

This Electronic Paperback is illustrated.

This Electronic Paperback is read aloud by an actor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Konecky & Konecky Military Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1568522568
• ISBN 13: 9781568522562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208