Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass: In One Volume

Lewis Carroll

Dell, 1992 - Juvenile Fiction - 224 pages

'Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'. So many readers were to take the advice of the King of Hearts that by the end of the nineteenth century the double Alice (1865 and 1872) had acquired a pre-eminent and unassailable position in children's literature. Lewis Carroll's use of logic, by which the ordinary is translated into the extraordinary in an entirely plausible way, is delightfully combined with an exceptional knowledge and understanding of the mind of the child. Satire, allusion, and symbolism weave deeper and mysterious meanings, lending a measure of immortality to Carroll's remarkable fantasy.

Contents

• CHAPTER: 1
• II: 15
• ΙΙΙ: 29
• IV: 41
• ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR: 59
• VI: 76
• VII: 95
• THE QUEENS CROQUETGROUND: 112
• THE MOCK TURTLES STORY: 130
• THE LOBSTERQUADRILLE: 147
• CHAPTER PAGE I LOOKINGGLASS HOUSE 1: 1
• THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS 26: 26
• LOOKINGGLASS INSECTS 46: 46
• TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE 66: 66
• WOOL AND WATER 91: 91
• v1 HUMPTY DUMPTY 113: 113
• THE LION AND THE UNICORN 137: 137
• ITS MY OWN INVENTION 157: 157
• ΙΧ QUEEN ALICE 185: 185
• SHAKING: 215
• WAKING: 216
• WHICH DREAMED IT?: 218

About the author

Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898. Sir John Tenniel, born in London in 1820 and died in 1914, was an English illustrator and cartoonist. Tenniel was primarily self-taught but he did become a student of the Royal Academy and in 1836 he sent his first picture to the exhibition of the Society of British Artists. In 1850 he was invited to fill the position of joint cartoonist at Punch (a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002). Tenniel is most famous today for his illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass but he made numerous contributions to Punch in the late 19th century. Tenniel retired in January 1901 and was honored with a farewell banquet at which the Leader of the House of Commons, presided.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass: In One Volume; Dell Yearling Classic
• Author: Lewis Carroll
• Illustrated by: John Tenniel
• Contributor: Arthur Prager
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Dell, 1992
• ISBN: 0440407435, 9780440407430
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic