Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

He is the author of two books of poetry, Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe and IDM. She has become one of the great characters of imaginative literature, as immortal as Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn, Captain Ahab, Sherlock Holmes, and Dorothy Gale of Kansas. Throughout her fantastic journeys, Alice retains her reason, humor, and sense of justice. Alice continues her adventures in Through the Looking-Glass, which is loosely based on a game of chess and includes Carroll’s famous poem “Jabberwocky.” Carroll’s sense of the absurd and his amazing gift for games of logic and language have secured for the Alice books an enduring spot in the hearts of both adults and children.Īlice begins her adventures when she follows the frantically delayed White Rabbit down a hole into the magical world of Wonderland, where she meets a variety of wonderful creatures, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Cheshire Cat, the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts-who, with the help of her enchanted deck of playing cards, tricks Alice into playing a bizarre game of croquet. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical, historical, and literary-to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.įirst published in 1865, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was an immediate success, as was its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectationsĪll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications some include illustrations of historical interest. Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholarsĬhronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll