Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice, a bright and inquisitive child, follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a very odd place indeed. This unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, Mock Turtles and Gryphos to provide an astute description of the experience of childhood.

Lewis Carroll's beloved and witty story was made into an animated film by Disney in 1951. It is also the inspiration for Tim Burton's 2010 film where an adult Alice returns to the peculiar world she discovered as a child. The film features Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway among a cast of British stars

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781407087351
• Artikelnr.: 39215185

Autorenporträt

Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was born on 27th January 1832 at Daresbury in Cheshire. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford University and later became a mathematics lecturer there. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872) for the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. He was very fond of puzzles and some readers have found mathematical jokes and codes hidden in his Alice books. His other works include Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869), The Hunting of the Snark (1876), Rhyme? And Reason? (1882), The Game of Logic (1887) and Sylvie and Bruno (1889, 1893). Dodgson was also an influential photographer. He died on 14th January 1898.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction
ix
Further Reading
lxvi
A Note on the Text
lxx
A Note on Tenniel
lxxv
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Contents
7
(2)
Down the Rabbit-Hole
9
(7)
The Pool of Tears
16
(8)
A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
24
(7)
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
31
(9)
Advice From a Caterpillar
40
(10)
Pig and Pepper
50
(10)
A Mad Tea-Party
60
(9)
The Queen's Croquet-Ground
69
(9)
The Mock Turtle's Story
78
(9)
The Lobster-Quadrille
87
(8)
Who Stole the Tarts?
95
(7)
Alice's Evidence
102
(19)
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Contents
119
(2)
Looking-Glass House
121
(14)
The Garden of Live Flowers
135

Rezensionen

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 notto 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