Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

✍ Scribed by Lewis Carroll

• Book ID: 104472042
• Publisher: Random House, Inc.;Barnes & Noble Classics
• Year: 1984;2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0553213458

✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY: 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 bookswith 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 childrens 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 upor down, or all turned roundas seen through the expert eyes of a child.