Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Illustrated Nove l) (Illustrated Classics) - Softcover

Carroll, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626920613 ISBN 13: 9781626920613

Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

For those who have never read Lewis Carroll's Alice novels, or for those who wish to revisit the beloved tales, this new edition of a perennial classic will appeal to today's reader who appreciates adorable manga-styled artwork. This 320-page collection contains all of Lewis Carroll's original text along with two full-colour spreads and one hundred black-and-white full-page and spot illustrations. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is a collection of stories featuring the titular character, Alice, and her misadventures through the curious and fantastical lands of Wonderland., As little Alice goes deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole, she meets an assortment of oddball characters, like the eccentric March Hare, the whimsical Mad Hatter, and the enigmatic Cheshire Cat, who will all become familiar faces within this strange world. If Alice is to navigate the dangerous yet fascinating landscape of Wonderland, she must learn who is friend and who is foe, and use her good breeding and wits to find a way home.

About this title

Review:

Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is, for most children, pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new". There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle and the Mad Hatter, together with a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser", seemingly without moral or sense.

For more than 130 years, children have revelled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing and branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings, reproduced here, are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages)

Review:

OUP's edition makes a decent fist of contextualising and explaining a book that appeals to adults and children. --Various

About this edition

• Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1626920613
• ISBN 13: 9781626920613
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320