Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll,
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
ISBN: 044805454X
Edition: Hardcover; 1970-06
Summary:
Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose.
While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex
mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium,
young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole,
pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and
new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the
Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other
characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice
journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her
strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and
curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense. For more than 130
years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic,
non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn,
Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock
Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in
school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition,
Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John
Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally,
Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are
inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie
Coulter
Book Details:
Edition Info: Hardcover; 1970-06
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