Alices Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There
Edition: Bantam Classic Edition (29)
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1981-10
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780553213454
Copyright date: 1981
Description: In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature.

Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books--with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.--by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children's literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history.

Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing up--or down, or all turned round--as seen through the expert eyes of a child.
--back cover
Notes: US/CAN