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This is the first and only paperbound edition of Lewis Car. roll's two masterpieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Class, that contains the full text. together with all of the original Tenniel illustrations in their correct places. and that adds to this a full annotation running concurrently with the text for the easiest possible reference. Here, the result of many years of research by an expert, is a running commentary on all the jokes, games, puzzles, tricks, parodies, obscure references, and almost endless curiosities with which Carroll filled i!is writings. With this information a modern reader can appreciate this great and subtle book in a way that would be impossible otherwise. Many incidents— from the moves in the chess game in Through the Looking Glass to a learned answer to the riddle "why is a raven like a writing desk," to what was the original model of the Cheshire Cat, or a marvellous French version of the famous Jabberwocky poem—all are made the subject of a small but delightful and erudite essay that will delight the reader with new knowledge and understanding.
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The Annotated Alice
1974-05, New American Library
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
1955, Whitman Publishing Company
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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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 conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?""
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A very real little girl named Alice follows a remarkable rabbit down a rabbit hole and steps through a looking-glass to come face to face with some of the strangest adventures and some of the oddest characters in all literature. The crusty Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire-Cat, Tweedledum and Tweedledee--each one is more eccentric, and more entertaining, than the last. And all of them could only have come from the pen of Lewis Carroll, one of the few adults ever to enter successfully the children's world of make-believe--a wonderland where the impossible becomes possible, the unreal, real...where the heights of adventure are limited only by the depths of imagination.
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