Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Informationen zum Autor Lewis Carroll, Introduction by Erin Morgenstern , Afterword by Jeffrey Meyers and Illustrations by John Tenniel Klappentext 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. 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. With an Introduction by Martin Gardner and an Afterword by Jeffrey Meyers and the Original Illustrations by John Tenniel Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis Carroll, Lewis/ Gardner Carroll, Martin Gardner, Jeffrey Meyers, John Tenniel
• Assisted by: John Tenniel (Illustration), Morgenstern Erin (Introduction), Jeffrey Meyers (Afterword)
• Publisher: Signet USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 8
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.03.2012
• EAN: 9780451532008
• ISBN: 978-0-451-53200-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 109 mm x 173 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Signet; Alice; Signet Classics; Alice im Wunderland; Alice im Wunderland; Signet Classics; Alice im Wunderland / Alice in Wonderland
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: literary and general