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  • Published: 1 December 2000
  • ISBN: 9781101153826
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass





Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child

Young and imaginative Alice follows a hasty rabbit underground and comes face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures and most fantastic characters in all literature....

NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ERIN MORGENSTERN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE STARLESS SEA AND THE NIGHT CIRCUS

The mad Hatter, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the grinning Cheshire-Cat, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee could only have come from that master of sublime nonsense Lewis Carroll. In this brilliant satire of rigid Victorian society, Carroll also illuminates the fears, anxieties, and complexities of growing up. He was one of the few adult writers to enter successfully the children’s world of make-believe, where the impossible becomes possible, the unreal, real, and where the heights of adventure are limited only by the depths of imagination. 

  • Published: 1 December 2000
  • ISBN: 9781101153826
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

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Emma
Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

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Praise for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

A book of wonder and nonsense laced with lethal wit

Guardian

Without these two books in my childhood I doubt whether my imagination would have developed at all

Kate Atkinson

A marvellous confidence in the primacy of the imagination

Will Self

Two nightmare destinations. Wonderland and Looking Glass. The more I read these books, the darker they shine.. Carroll operates on language like a cruel, crazy surgeon

Jeff Noon

Precise, dream-like, subversive

Quentin Blake, Independent on Sunday

The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books lies in language. . .. It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children

A. S. Byatt

Only Lewis Carroll has shown us the world upside down the way a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh

Virginia Woolf
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