Alice Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books–with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.–by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children’s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing up–or down, or all turned round–as seen through the expert eyes of a child.

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Peter Pan
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics)
• Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions)
• The Logic of Sense
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics)
• Frankenstein
• From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
• The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising Sequence)