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

Marc Notes: This is a deluxe edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless tale of wondrously charming nonsense, in time for its 150th anniversary. When Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, little does she know that she is travelling to a world of magic where common-sense is turned upside-down. The dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the backwards Looking-Glass kingdom are full of the unexpected: a baby turns into a pig, time is missing at a tea-party, and a wild chess game makes the seven-year-old Alice a queen. Biographical Note: LEWIS CARROLL (1832 1898), the penname of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, is one of Western literature s most beloved and influential writers. CHARLIE LOVETT is the author of the "New York Times "bestseller "The Bookman s Tale "and "First Impressions." SIR JOHN TENNIEL (1820 1914) was best known for illustrating the works of Lewis Carroll and for his political cartoons in "Punch "magazine."Review Quotes: A work of glorious intelligence and literary devices Nonsense becomes a form of higher sense Malcolm Bradbury "Alice in Wonderland"is one of the top 25 books of all time. I always loved the book and I always loved the various characters, the psychedelic nature of it and kind-of odd allegorical stories inside stories. I always thought it was beautiful. Jonny Depp Wonderland and the world through the Looking Glass were, I always knew, different from other imagined worlds. Nothing could be changed, although things in the story were always changing Carroll moves his readers as he moves chess pieces and playing cards. A. S. Byatt It would not have occurred to me even to suspect that the children s tale was in brilliant ways coded to be read by adults and was in fact an English classic, a universally acclaimed intellectual tour de force and what might be described as a psychological/anthropological dissection of Victorian England. It seems not to have occurred to me that the child-Alice of drawing rooms, servants, tea and crumpets and chess, was of a distinctly different background than my own. I must have been the ideal reader: credulous, unjudging, eager, thrilled. I knew only that I believed in Alice, absolutely. Joyce Carol Oates The"Alices"are the greatest nonsense ever written, and far greater, in my view, than most sense. Philip Pullman"Review Quotes: "A work of glorious intelligence and literary devices... Nonsense becomes a form of higher sense" -Malcolm Bradbury ""Alice in Wonderland" is one of the top 25 books of all time. I always loved the book and I always loved the various characters, the psychedelic nature of it and kind-of odd allegorical stories inside stories. I always thought it was beautiful." -Jonny Depp "Wonderland and the world through the Looking Glass were, I always knew, different from other imagined worlds. Nothing could be changed, although things in the story were always changing... Carroll moves his readers as he moves chess pieces and playing cards." -A. S. Byatt "It would not have occurred to me even to suspect that the "children's tale" was in brilliant ways coded to be read by adults and was in fact an English classic, a universally acclaimed intellectual tour de force and what might be described as a psychological/anthropological dissection of Victorian England. It seems not to have occurred to me that the child-Alice of drawing rooms, servants, tea and crumpets and chess, was of a distinctly different background than my own. I must have been the ideal reader: credulous, unjudging, eager, thrilled. I knew only that I believed in Alice, absolutely." -Joyce Carol Oates "The "Alices" are the greatest nonsense ever written, and far greater, in my view, than most sense." -Philip Pullman Review Citations:

Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 462 (EAN 9780809244881, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Carroll, Lewis Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym of the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was born on January 27, 1832, and died on January 14, 1898. His most famous works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There; and The Hunting of the Snark. Contributor Bio:  Tenniel, John The many works of Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) include many humorous and political cartoons for Punch and other periodicals of the time, but he is best known for his illustrations of the original editions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Class. Contributor Bio:  Lovett, Charlie Charlie Lovett is a writer, a teacher, and a playwright. He and his wife split their time between Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Kingham, Oxfordshire, in England.