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  • Published: 7 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698406438
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass





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"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice  (she was so much surprised, that for the moment  she quite forgot how to speak good English.)  "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that  ever was! Good-bye,  feet!"

Alice and all her many friends will never be  forgotten so long as books for children are published.  The fascinating adventures of this timeless little  girl as she plunges down the rabbit-hole, shrinks  and grows, meets the pack of cards and the chess  pieces -- should be read regularly by all ages for  their totally original fantasy, their humor, and  their charm.

  • Published: 7 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698406438
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

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Praise for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

"A work of glorious intelligence and literary devices...Nonsense becomes a form of higher sense"
Malcolm Bradbury

"Alice in Wonderland is one of the top 25 books of all time. I always loved the book and I always loved the various characters, the psychedelic nature of it and kind-of odd allegorical stories inside stories. I always thought it was beautiful."
Jonny Depp

"Wonderland and the world through the Looking Glass were, I always knew, different from other imagined worlds. Nothing could be changed, although things in the story were always changing...Carroll moves his readers as he moves chess pieces and playing cards."
A. S. Byatt

"It would not have occurred to me even to suspect that the "children's tale" was in brilliant ways coded to be read by adults and was in fact an English classic, a universally acclaimed intellectual tour de force and what might be described as a psychological/anthropological dissection of Victorian England. It seems not to have occurred to me that the child-Alice of drawing rooms, servants, tea and crumpets and chess, was of a distinctly different background than my own. I must have been the ideal reader: credulous, unjudging, eager, thrilled. I knew only that I believed in Alice, absolutely."
Joyce Carol Oates

"The Alices are the greatest nonsense ever written, and far greater, in my view, than most sense."
Philip Pullman