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

by Carroll, Lewis; Tenniel, John; Haughton, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780140433173
• ISBN10: 0140433171
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text summary. Presented in an affordable edition with wide format pages for generous margins for notes.

Author Biography

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was a man of diverse interests - in mathematics, logic, photgraphy, art, theater, religion, medicine, and science. He was happiest in the company of children for whom he created puzzles, clever games, and charming letters.

As all Carroll admirers know, his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. The equally popular sequel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1872.

The Alice books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. The Hunting of the Snark, a classic nonsense epic (1876) and Euclid and His Modern Rivals, a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students. Sylvie and Bruno, published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness.

The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics.

Hugh Haughton is a senior lecturer at the University of York. He edited Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass for Penguin Classics.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	vii	(2)
INTRODUCTION	ix	(37)
FURTHER READING	lxvi	(4)
A NOTE ON THE TEXT	lxx	(5)
A NOTE ON TENNIEL	lxxv
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	7	(112)
CONTENTS	7	(2)
I DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE	9	(7)
II THE POOL OF TEARS	16	(8)
III A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE	24	(7)
IV THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL	31	(9)
V ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR	40	(10)
VI PIG AND PEPPER	50	(10)
VII A MAD TEA-PARTY	60	(9)
VIII THE QUEEN'S CROQUET-GROUND	69	(9)
IX THE MOCK TURTLE'S STORY	78	(9)
X THE LOBSTER-QUADRILLE	87	(8)
XI WHO STOLE THE TARTS?	95	(7)
XII ALICE'S EVIDENCE	102	(17)
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There	119	(124)
CONTENTS	119	(2)
I LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE	121	(14)
II THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS	135	(10)
III LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS	145	(11)
IV TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE	156	(14)
V WOOL AND WATER	170	(11)
VI HUMPTY DUMPTY	181	(13)
VII THE LION AND THE UNICORN	194	(11)
VIII "IT'S MY OWN INVENTION"	205	(15)
IX QUEEN ALICE	220	(15)
X SHAKING	235	(2)
XI WAKING	237	(1)
XII WHICH DREAMED IT?	238	(5)
INTRODUCTION: ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND	243	(56)
ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND	249	(44)
`"ALICE" ON THE STAGE'	293	(6)
NOTES TO ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND	299	(25)
NOTES TO THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS	324	(32)
APPENDIX I: PREFACE TO THE EIGHTY-SIXTH THOUSAND 6/- EDITION OF ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND	356	(1)
APPENDIX II: PREFACE TO THE SIXTY-FIRST THOUSAND EDITION OF THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS	357