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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Series: Alice's Adventures (Omnibus 1-2)

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This is still a superior work of imagination, and I particularly love the poems, but after giving it to my 6-year old to read, I did come to the conclusion that there is way too much of the "off with her head" stuff. She much preferred the Freddy the Pig books or the first Harry Potter. ( )
1 vote datrappert | Nov 15, 2009 |
Mr. Carroll did a great job with both stories. I greatly enjoy every time I read them. ( )
1 vote Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 |
I decided to read Alice in Wonderland as an attempt to see if Lewis Carroll was high on drugs while he wrote this book. Obviously, he wasn't; that does not, however, devalue the levels of his writing. Carroll's writing is strong, but Alice in Wonderland is just too devoid of substance to be considered literature. ( )
  06nwingert | Oct 31, 2009 |
An engaging fantasy that is best read in full because the language is as important as the plot and the poetry. ( )
1 vote TheoClarke | Oct 30, 2009 |
thoroughly enjoyable, consistently baffling. Carroll relies perhaps too much on the fanciful characters interpreting Alice's idioms literally, but there's lots of genuinely fun stuff here, and almost all the poems work well within the text. I think I liked "Through the Looking Glass" better because it was less random (i.e. themes are consistent thorough, chess and signifiers) and yet more bizarre. ( )
1 vote phette23 | Oct 19, 2009 |
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversation in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
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"In that direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter; and in that direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like; they're both mad."
"I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at this distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!"
Off with his head!
I'm very brave, generally . . . only today I happen to have a headache.
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This is a combined edition of "Alice's adventures in wonderland" and "Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there". Please don't combine with a copy of only one of these.
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0451523202, Paperback)

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, among 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 reveled 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 are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400)

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