Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Illustration:Tenniel, John

• Buch mit Leinen-Einband

Produktbeschreibung

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.

Produktdetails

• A Penguin Classics Hardcover
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 269472
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 139mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780141192468
• ISBN-10: 0141192461
• Artikelnr.: 28437248

Autorenporträt

Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898). He was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford.

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