Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature.

Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books--with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.--by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children's literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history.

Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing up--or down, or all turned round--as seen through the expert eyes of a child.

Author: Lewis Carroll
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Published: 05/01/1984
Series: Bantam Classics
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.24w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780553213454

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 503 / Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass/Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Loo