Describes how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of Wonderland and back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abando
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This beautiful, clothbound new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more.
Includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness, there is meaning everywhere.
It was a hot, hot day; her boring sister was reading a boring book – with no pictures! –and Alice didn’t know what to do. When suddenly ... she saw ... a white rabbit.’ In this Reader you will find: - Games and language activities - An audio recording of the story - A picture dictionary Tags Friendship Adventure ‘I am not a monster!’ thought Alice. ‘But who am I? What am I?’ The classic story of
"Lewis Caroll ought now to be taking his palace among the novelists", wrote Kathleen Tillotson twenty-one years ago. Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass need no introduction: the double Alice is among the best-known, most frequently quoted books in the English language, and has been translated into almost as many foreign tongues as has the Bible; in its own
A beautiful illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's classic story for children, with an afterword by Anna South.