Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics)

Author: Carroll, Lewis

Brand: Bantam Classics

Color: White

Edition: First Edition

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 272

Release Date: 01-05-1984

model number: 9780553213454

Part Number: 9780553213454

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780553213454

Package Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English