Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Vintage Classics)
Author(s): Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel (Illustrator)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
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"A book of wonder and nonsense laced with lethal wit" Guardian "Without these two books in my childhood I doubt whether my imagination would have developed at all" -- Kate Atkinson "A marvellous confidence in the primacy of the imagination" -- Will Self "Two nightmare destinations. Wonderland and Looking Glass. The more I read these books, the darker they shine. Carroll operates on language like a cruel, crazy surgeon" -- Jeff Noon "Precise, dream-like, subversive" -- Quentin Blake Independent on Sunday
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.243
- : 01 August 2007
- : 201mm X 133mm X 22mm
- : 01 May 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel (Illustrator)
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 327
- : illustrations
