Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland is one of the best-loved children's stories in the world and has been translated into nearly fifty languages, and in several cases more than once. Sir John Tenniel's beautiful illustrations have always been an integral part of the book's magic, and for this edition of Alice and Through the Looking Glass one of Britain's leading colourists, Barbara Frith, has been specially commissioned to work her magic.
The result is a book of great beauty in which Alice meets the savagely violent Queen, the lachrymose Mock Turtle, the laconic Cheshire Cat and the hookah-smoking caterpillar, each as surprising and outlandish as the next. Through the Looking-Glass continues Alice's bizarre adventures, and she meets more outlandish creations including the Red and the White Queens, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the gentle White Knight.
Product Information
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, celebrated under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was born in 1832, the third in a large and talented family of eleven children. His fascination with word games, puzzles and writing was evident from an early age. He was educated at Rugby School and then Christ Church, Oxford, where he was later appointed lecturer in mathematics and subsequently spent the rest of his life there. Alongside his academic life he pursued a career both as a writer and an accomplished amateur photographer. His most famous works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), its sequel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876). He died, unmarried, in 1898.
General Fields
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- : Collector's Colour Library
- : Macmillan Collector's Library
- : 01 January 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lewis Carroll
- : Hardback
- : Unabridged
- : Sir John Tenniel
- : en
- : 823.8
- : 286
- : illustrations
