Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

This is the -Penguin English Library Edition- of A-lice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass- by Lewis Carroll. '-Curiouser and curiouser!- cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). -Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!-' 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ...without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disorderly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood. -The Penguin English Library- - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.