Weary of her storybook, one "without pictures or conversations," the young and imaginative Alice follows a hasty hare underground--to come face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures and most fantastic characters in all of literature. The Ugly Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat--each more eccentric than the last--could only have come from that master of sublime nonsense, Lewis Carroll. In penning this brilliant burlesque of children's literature, Carroll ...
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Weary of her storybook, one "without pictures or conversations," the young and imaginative Alice follows a hasty hare underground--to come face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures and most fantastic characters in all of literature. The Ugly Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat--each more eccentric than the last--could only have come from that master of sublime nonsense, Lewis Carroll. In penning this brilliant burlesque of children's literature, Carroll has written a farcical satire of rigid Victorian society, an arresting parody of the fears, anxieties, and complexities of growing up. Carroll was one of the few adult writers to successfully enter the children's world of make-believe: where the impossible becomes possible, the unreal--real, and where the height of adventure is limited only by the depths of imagination.
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Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). In this delightful and amusing story (with a chess board as the backdrop), Alice encounters the Red Queen, the White Queen, a Knight, live flowers, insects, Tweedledee, Tweedledum, Humpty Dumpty, the Unicorn, the Lion, and other memorable characters. As in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, there is frequent use of word play. There is also great poetry as well. In sum, Through the Looking Glass is just as entertaining as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
