Favourite. ( )

Alice's adventures are beyond odd, delightfully surreal and yet totally believable, and strangely discomfiting. I'll admit: I'm always a bit scared for Alice and the others in the two main stories. Animals get unreasonably angry and threaten violence. Alice's growth and shrinking is sometimes really dangerous. The whole thing is discombobulating. Big. Small. Angry. Silly. Nonsensical. But Alice, young Alice, maintains her cool. Or doesn't. And nearly drowns. I'm so strangely weirded out. *shudder*

_Through the Looking Glass_ really takes the surreal further. The focus is more on the slightly less differentiated and interesting chess pieces ... queens and kings and knights. They're not nearly as interesting as the animals from the first book.

I dipped a little into _Sylvia and Bruno_ here, but it didn't grab me, so I'm moving on. ( )

Presented in this volume are a collection of stories, poems, and puzzles by Lewis Carroll. It features Carroll's classics, such as Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, as well as the unforgettable The Hunting of the Snark. Included here too are the Sylvie and Bruno tales, Alice's Adventures Underground, several arithmetic puzzles (ranging from easy to hard, including one whose solution requires equivocation), as well as a bounty of entertaining poems all exhibiting Carroll's wit and wisdom.

This book is sure to be a cherished addition to any library favoring the works of Carroll. ( )

As a kid, I had a copy of Carrol's works that had no pictures, and I STILL loved it! The eight selections in this book, and the date when they were first published (when known): 1 - Alice in Wonderland (1865); 2. - Through the Looking Glass (1896); 3 - Sylvia and Bruno (1889); 4 - Sylvia and Bruno Concluded (1893); 5 - A Tangled Tale; 6 - The Hunting of the Snark (1876); 7 - Phantasmagoria and Other Poems; 8 - Three Sunsets and Other Poems. ( )

One of my favorite books!