Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!"'

'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, 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 disorderly 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 and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141974637
• Artikelnr.: 38145631

Autorenporträt

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was born in 1832. Already reading The Pilgrim's Progress at the age of seven, his exceptional intelligence was apparent from the outset - his Mathematics master at Rugby wrote of him, 'I have not had a more promising boy at his age' - and he went on to be awarded a double first class honours in Maths at Christ Church, Oxford. Despite going on to hold a lectureship at Christ Church for twenty-six years, however, Dodgson found it difficult to apply himself to academic work, and it is for his extraordinary literary works that he is known. His two Alice books were originally composed for the daughter of the dean of his college, Alice Liddell, and are the most famous and enduring of his works along with The Hunting of the Snark, a book of nonsense verse. He also wrote works on logic and satirical pamphlets on Oxford politics, and became a pioneering amateur portrait photographer, specializing in Victorian celebrities and children. He died in 1898, at the age of sixty-five.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction
ix
Further Reading
lxvi
A Note on the Text
lxx
A Note on Tenniel
lxxv
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Contents
7
(2)
Down the Rabbit-Hole
9
(7)
The Pool of Tears
16
(8)
A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
24
(7)
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
31
(9)
Advice From a Caterpillar
40
(10)
Pig and Pepper
50
(10)
A Mad Tea-Party
60
(9)
The Queen's Croquet-Ground
69
(9)
The Mock Turtle's Story
78
(9)
The Lobster-Quadrille
87
(8)
Who Stole the Tarts?
95
(7)
Alice's Evidence
102
(19)
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Contents
119
(2)
Looking-Glass House
121
(14)
The Garden of Live Flowers
135