Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass By
Lewis Carroll (Paperback, 2003)

Collecting Alice&s complete adventures a source of delight to children and adults alike for generations the Penguin Classics edition of Lewis Carroll&s Alice&s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is edited with an introduction and notes by Hugh Haughton Conjured up one &golden afternoon& in 1862 to entertain Alice Liddell the daughter of the dean of Carroll&s college the dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down Following the white rabbit into his warren Alice falls into a world where croquet is played with hedgehogs and flamingos a baby turns into a pig time runs amok at a the Mad Hatter&s tea-party a chaotic game of chess makes Alice a Queen and the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille
But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling wordplay unforgettable characters puzzles and riddles are poignant moments of nostalgia for a lost childhood Original and experimental adapted into countless film and television versions as Alice in Wonderland 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 (1832-1898) was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Educated at Rugby School and Christ Church Oxford Carroll was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855 where he spent the rest of his life In 1861 he took deacon&s orders but shyness and a
constitutional stammer prevented him from seeking the priesthood If you enjoyed Alice&s Adventures in Wonderland you might like Mikhail Bulgakov&s The Master and Margarita also available in Penguin Classics &A work of glorious intelligence and literary devices nonsense becomes a form of higher sense&Malcolm Bradbury