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Lewis Carroll

Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass


2012. 256 S. 198 mm
Verlag/Jahr: PENGUIN UK 2012
ISBN: 0-14-119968-7 (0141199687)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-14-119968-9 (9780141199689)

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

´"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I´m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!"´

´I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,´ wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one ´golden afternoon´ in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disorderly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Carroll, Lewis
Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.