Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Description

When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted.

Author description

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1867. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9780141330075
• Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint : Puffin Classics
• Publication date : February 2010
• Dimensions : 178mm X 129mm X 15mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 208
• Dewey classification : 823.8
• Illustrator : Sir John Tenniel
• Edition : Re-issue
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Lewis Carroll