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Alice in Wonderland


Alice

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No. of pages 96

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Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is, for most children, pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new". There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle and the Mad Hatter, together with a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser", seemingly without moral or sense. For more than 130 years, children have revelled in the delightfully non -moralistic, non -educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing and branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings, reproduced here, are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages)

 

This book features in the following series: Alice, Award Classics .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Award Publications Ltd .

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898. Alice in Wonderland was first published in 1865.

This book contains the following story:

Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll tells a story about a curious little girl called Alice who follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and ends up in Wonderland. Here she meets various bizarre characters including the Cheshire Cat, the Hatter, the March Hare, the Caterpillar and the Queen of Hearts. You can read the unabridged text here.

This book is in the following series:

Dean Gold Medal Books

Alice

Award Classics

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