Alice Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Author(s): Lewis Carroll (Christ Church College, Oxford)
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.
General Information
- :
- : CreateSpace
- : CreateSpace
- : 0.222
- : 01 November 2014
- : 244mm X 170mm X 7mm
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Lewis Carroll (Christ Church College, Oxford)
- : 132
- : black & white illustrations