Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

Penguin Publishing Group, 1960 - Fiction - 240 pages

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.

Contents

• Down the RabbitHole: 19
• The Pool of Tears: 26
• A CaucusRace and a Long Tale: 33

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass; Regent classics; Signet Classics
• Author: Lewis Carroll
• Illustrated by: Sir John Tenniel
• Contributor: Horace Gregory
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1960
• ISBN: 0451523202, 9780451523204
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General