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Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland


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.
320 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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  • Helenahas quoted7 years ago
    fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, and blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind
  • Joyce Gilmorehas quoted3 years ago
    it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place
  • Joyce Gilmorehas quoted3 years ago
    It’s my opinion you never think at all

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