Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (Macmillan Collector's Library)

It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into a world where logic dissolves and imagination reigns supreme. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll creates a realm of anarchic wonder where a grinning Cheshire Cat dispenses cryptic wisdom, the Queen demands executions at whim, and a caterpillar smoking a hookah asks the most unsettling questions. Alice navigates this topsy-turvy landscape with pluck and bewilderment, encountering characters both laconic and terrifying, all rendered unforgettable through their sheer strangeness and Carroll's razor-sharp wit.

In Through the Looking-Glass, Alice's second journey takes her beyond the mirror into a chess-like world where she must journey from pawn to queen, encountering Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the vain and vulnerable Humpty Dumpty, and the Red Queen herself—terrifying in her casual cruelty. These two classics, collected here in one exquisite Macmillan Collector's Library edition and brought to life by Sir John Tenniel's legendary black-and-white illustrations, have enchanted readers for more than 150 years. Selected for The Great American Read, a PBS series celebrating America's 100 most-loved books, these tales transcend their origins as stories told to a child on a summer's day to become profound meditations on language, logic, identity and the strange beauty of nonsense. With an afterword by Anna South, this beautifully bound pocket-sized edition is a treasured gift for readers discovering Carroll for the first time or returning to Wonderland as an adult.

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library

Date Published: 14/07/2016

ISBN: 9781909621572

Number of pages: 288

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• Hardcover

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