Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Modern Library Classics)

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Synopsis
'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole . . . without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Charles Dodgson, 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 disordered 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, paradoxes and riddles, are poignant moments of elegiac nostalgia for lost childhood. Startlingly original and experimental, the Alice books provide readers with a double window on both child and adult worlds. This is the most comprehensively annotated edition available and includes the manuscript version of Alice's Adventures Underground and Carroll's essay '"Alice" on the Stage' written for the under Ground Theatre in 1887. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 4-5 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
Copyright:
2002

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
224 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780553902808
Related ISBNs:
9780553213454
Publisher:
The Modern Library
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
A. S. Byatt
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Children's Books, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Grade Levels:
Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade
Reading Age:
8–14
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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