Lewis Carroll

Alice Through the Looking Glass (eBook, ePUB)

And What Alice Found There

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects. Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass land into a chessboard, where Alice becomes a pawn in a bizarre game of chess involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, the White Knight, and other nursery-rhyme figures. Promised a crown when she reaches the eighth square, Alice perseveres through a surreal landscape of amusing characters that pelt her with riddles and humorous semantic quibbles and regale her with memorable poetry, including the oft-quoted "Jabberwocky." This handsome, inexpensive edition, makes available to today's readers a classic of juvenile literature long cherished for its humor, whimsy, and incomparable fantasy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kerry Butters
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788835347538
• Artikelnr.: 58984637

Autorenporträt

Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was an acclaimed English author, mathematician, and logician who lived during the 19th century. He was born on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, England, and passed away on January 14, 1898.