‘”Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so 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! Goodbye, feet!”‘ This Penguin English Library Edition brings together both of Lewis Carroll’s beloved classics — Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass — in a single volume. Carroll himself described how Alice sprang to life on a ‘golden afternoon’ in 1862, invented to delight his young friend Alice Liddell; he had sent his heroine tumbling down a rabbit-hole, he wrote, ‘without the least idea what was to happen afterwards.’ What followed were two dream worlds unlike any other in literature. In Wonderland, a baby becomes a pig, a tea-party collapses into glorious disorder, and time itself is abandoned. In the mirror-reversed Looking Glass kingdom, a game of chess carries a seven-year-old girl all the way to queenhood. Beneath the anarchic wit, sparkling wordplay and delicious riddles, however, run deeper currents — moments of quiet, poignant longing for a childhood already slipping away. The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
ISBN 13: 9780141199689
Author: Lewis Carroll
