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Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection) - 9781853260025 - KIN0035713
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)

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Description for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection) paperback. Includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness, there is meaning everywhere. Illustrator(s): Tenniel, Sir John. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury

This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were.

Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and ... Read more

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Series
Wordsworth Classics
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Herts, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853260025
SKU
KIN0035713
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Lewis Carroll
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury

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