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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Alice goes to glass world. This world is very strange. Chess man talks and walks. This book is very difficult for me. There are many difficult words about chess. I think people who do not know rule of chess can not understand. Alice is inside the looking-glass world. This world is very strange. she finds that she is part of game of chess. She become porn of the White King,and she aims to be a Queen. This book is very strange. It is difficult for me to read this story.And person don`t know rule of chess can`t understand. I quite enjoyed this story, with its mixture of fairytale & dreamlike qualities. I giggled quite a few times as well. :') And unlike some of the other readers on these audio abridged classics, I thought reader Caroline Winterson did a superb job. Similar to previous one in its humour and odd story line. The underlying theme of the English language and its proper usage is interesting. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0688120490, Hardcover)When Trough the Looking glass was published in 1871, readers were as delighted with that book as they were with Lewis Carroll's first masterpiece, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In the topsy-turvy world that lies beyond the looking-glass, Alice meets such fantastical characters as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwock. For over 120 years John Tenniel's superb illustrations have been the perfect complement to Lewis Carroll's timeless story. This is the first edition of Looking-glass to reproduce Tenniel's exquisite drawings from engravings taken directly from the original woodblocks. Here, Tenniel's fine line work is far crisper, delicate shadings are reproduced with more subtlety, and details never seen before are now visible. The pictures for the first edition of Looking-glass were created by transferring the artist's drawings to woodblocks. These original blocks served as masters from which metal plates were made for printing. Unfortunately, these plates deteriorated from the repeated pressure applied during the printing process, and over time, many of the fine lines in Tenniel's pictures simply vanished. The original woodblocks disappeared and were believed lost; then, in 1985 they were discovered in a London bank vault. Now, for the first time, engravings from these woodblocks have been used to produce a deluxe gift edition. At last, readers can see the Looking-glass that Carroll and Tenniel had originally intended. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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