Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There

by Carroll, Lewis; Green, Roger Lancelyn; Tenniel, John

• ISBN13: 9780192833747
• ISBN10: 019283374X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

When Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit-hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit she finds herself in Wonderland. And there begin the fantastical adventures that will see her experiencing extraordinary changes in size, swimming in a pool of her own tears and attending the very maddest of tea parties. For Wonderland is no ordinary place and the characters that populate it are quite unlike anybody young Alice has ever met before. In this imaginary land she encounters the savagely violent Queen, the Lachrymose Mock Turtle, the laconic Cheshire Cat and the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, each as surprising and outlandish as the next. Alice's adventures have made her the stuff of legend, the child heroine "par excellence," and ensured that Carroll's book is the best loved and most widely read in children's literature.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	ix	(17)
NOTE ON THE TEXT	xxvi	(3)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY	xxix	(2)
A CHRONOLOGY OF LEWIS CARROLL	xxxi
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Prefatory Poem	3	(2)
Preface to Seventy-ninth Thousand (1886)	5	(1)
Preface to Eighty-sixth Thousand (1897)	6	(1)
Contents List	7	(2)
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND	9	(105)
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS	114	(136)
Chess Problem	114	(1)
Dramatis Personae	115	(1)
Prefatory Poem	116	(1)
Advertisement [for the `Sixtieth Thousand'] (1893)	117	(1)
Preface to Sixty-first Thousand (1897)	118	(3)
Contents List	121	(2)
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE	123	(123)
Christmas Greetings	246	(1)
To all Child-readers of `Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'	247	(1)
An Easter Greeting to every child who loves Alice	248	(2)
TEXTUAL NOTES	250	(3)
EXPLANATORY NOTES	253