Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There: Lewis Carroll (Puffin Classics) - Softcover

Carroll, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141330074 ISBN 13: 9780141330075

Publisher: Puffin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

Puffin Classics - the world's favourite stories - relaunched with exciting new covers.

You never know where you'll find yourself in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll!

Join Alice on her weird and wonderful journey, where nothing is quite as it seems.
When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted.

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.

The book includes a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more..

The Puffin Classics relaunch includes:
A Little Princess
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass
Anne of Green Gables
Black Beauty
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Heidi
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Little Women
Peter Pan
Tales of the Greek Heroes
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of King Arthur
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Call of the Wild
The Jungle Book
The Odyssey
The Secret Garden
The Wind in the Willows
The Wizard of Oz
Treasure Island

About this title

Review:

"Tony Ross captures all of the quirks of Carroll's original characters in an innovative way... The newly imagined text breathes fresh life into this fantastical tale, bringing delight to the eye and ear of the reader." (Guardian, The Best New Children's Books)

Book Description:

Follow Alice through the looking glass as she sets off on her second adventure in Tony Ross' brilliantly illustrated Wonderland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0141330074
• ISBN 13: 9780141330075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208