Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there\Alice im Wunderland; Alice hinter den Spiegeln, englische Ausgabe
Ed. w. an Introd. and notes by Peter Hunt. Illustr. by Hohn Tenniel
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there\Alice im Wunderland; Alice hinter den Spiegeln, englische Ausgabe
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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice
remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're
all mad here.'
The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most
quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are
they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, they
are also complex textures of mathematical, linguistic, and
philosophical jokes. Alice's encounters with the White Rabbit,
the Cheshire-Cat, the King and Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter,
Tweedledum and Tweedledee and many other extraordinary characters
have made them masterpieces of carefree nonsense, yet they
also appeal to adults on a quite different level. Layers of satire,
allusion, and symbolism about Victorian culture and politics, as
well as revelations about the intricate subconscious problems of
their author, add to their fascination and make them impossible to
classify.
This new edition explores the phenomenal range of reference, and
the paradoxical appeal of two of the most inventive books in world
literature. It also includes an episode removed by Carroll from the
proofs of Through the Looking-Glass, called 'The Wasp in a
Wig'.
OUP's edition makes a decent fist of contextualising and explaining a book that appeals to adults and children. Colin Waters, Sunday Herald
Lewis Carroll, 1832-98, war Dozent für Mathematik in Oxford. Seine Erzählungen über die kleine Alice gehören zu den bekanntesten und meistzitierten Texten der englischen Literatur. Sie sind Klassiker der Nonsensliteratur.
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