Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Subtitle: and What Alice Found There
By: Lewis Carroll ; edited with an introduction and notes by Roger Lancelyn Green ; with illustrations by John Tenniel.
Contributors: Green, Roger Lancelyn.; Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914, ill.; Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Edition: Oxford World's Classics paperback reissue (1)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780192833747
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Fantasy
Other titles: Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; and, Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there; Through the looking-glass.
Description: 'Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.' So many readers were to take the advice of the King of Hearts that by the end of the nineteenth century the double Alice (1865 and 1872) had acquired a pre-eminent and unassailable position in children's literature. Lewis Carroll's use of logic, by which the ordinary is translated into the extraordinary in an entirely plausible way, is delightfully combined with an exceptional knowledge and understanding of the mind of the child. Satire, allusion, and symbolism weave deeper and mysterious meanings, lending a measure of immortality to Carroll's remarkable fantasy.
• INTRODUCTION • TEXTUAL NOTE • BIBLIOGRAPHY • CHRONOLOGY • EXPLANATORY NOTES
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Notes: Bibliography: p. xxix-xxx.