Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
	List Price:   $11.00 Unit Price:   $8.80 You Save:   $2.20 (20%) ISBN-10:   0141439769 ISBN-13:   9780141439761 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Edition:   Revised, illustrated Category:   Classics, Young Adults Pub. Date:   April 2003 Pages:   400 Format:   Paperback Ages:   18 and Up Grades:   0 to 0
Subjects
JUVENILE FICTION General; JUVENILE FICTION Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic
Description/Notes
This annotated edition of Lewis Carroll's two most famous stories includes the original primitive text for Alice in Wonderland. When Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865, it set critics awry: here was a book for children written for the pure pleasure of reading. It has since become one of the most famous children's books ever, translated into many different languages, performed as a play, and made into a popular Disney animated film. 'Contrariwise ... if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic' 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disordered tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood. Original and experimental, the Alice books give readers a window on both child and adult worlds. This is the most comprehensively annotated edition available and includes the manuscript version of Alice's Adventures Under Ground and Carroll's 1887 essay ''Alice' on the Stage'. Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Revd Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855, and where he spent the rest of his life. He wrote numerous satirical pamphlets on Oxford politics, including Notes by an Oxford Chiel (1874), and works on logic such as Euclid and His Modern Rivals and Symbolic Logic (1896). He also became a pioneering amateur portrait photographer, specializing in Victorian celebrities and children. Though Dodgson never married, children were the main interest of his life. After the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), both of which were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of his college, he became the most famous children's writer of the day. In addition to his two nonsense classics, he also published several books of nonsense verse, including Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1896), The Hunting of the Snark (1876) and Rhyme? And Reason? (1882); numerous books of puzzles and games such as The Game of Logic (1887); and towards the close of his life, a long children's novel in two parts, Sylvie and Bruno (1889, 1893). He died in 1898. 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole . . . without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Charles Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disordered tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles, paradoxes and riddles, are poignant moments of elegiac nostalgia for lost childhood. Startlingly original and experimental, the Alice books provide readers with a double window on both child and adult worlds. This is the most comprehensively annotated edition available and includes the manuscript version of Alice's Adventures Underground and Carroll's essay ''Alice' on the Stage' written for the under Ground Theatre in 1887.