Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Informationen zum Autor Charles Lutwidge Dodgson! celebrated under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll! was born in 1832! the third in a large and talented family of eleven children. His fascination with word games! puzzles and writing was evident from an early age. He was educated at Rugby School and then Christ Church! Oxford! where he was later appointed lecturer in mathematics and subsequently spent the rest of his life there. Alongside his academic life he pursued a career both as a writer and an accomplished amateur photographer. His most famous works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)! its sequel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876). He died! unmarried! in 1898. Klappentext When Alice tumbles down! down! down a rabbit-hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit! she finds herself in Wonderland. And here begin the fantastical adventures that will see her experiencing extraordinary changes in size! swimming in a pool of her own tears and attending the very maddest of tea parties. For Wonderland is no ordinary place and the characters that populate it are quite unlike anybody young Alice has ever met before. Zusammenfassung When Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole one summer afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit! she finds herself in Wonderland. And here begin the adventures that have made Alice the stuff of legend and ensured that Lewis Carroll's book is the best loved and most widely read in children's literature. Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel! with an Afterword by Anna South.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis Carroll
• Assisted by: John Tenniel (Illustration)
• Publisher: Collector's Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2004
• EAN: 9781904633327
• ISBN: 978-1-904633-32-7
• No. of pages: 134
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 156 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Alice; Alice im Wunderland; Macmillan Collector's Library; Alice im Wunderland; Collector's Library; Alice im Wunderland / Alice in Wonderland
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fantasy, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Fantasy / Humorous, FICTION / Magical Realism, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / General, FICTION / Animals, FICTION / Absurdist, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics, c 1800 to c 1900, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Surrealism, Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), Magical Realism, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, c 1960 to c 1969, Satirical fiction and parodies, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)