Alice Through the Looking Glass (Collector's Edition)

Author: Carroll, Lewis

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 15 September 2024 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Wordsworth Collector's Editions' series.

Hardback | 192 pages
161 x 186 x 23 | 228g

Through the Looking-Glass the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Lewis Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses.