Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Introduction by A. S. Byatt
Illustrations by John Tenniel
Includes commissioned endnotes
 
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. “The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books,” writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction, “lies in language. It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children.”

Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

Reviewed by Amber (The Literary Phoenix) on

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Gosh guys, what can I even say about Alice in Wonderland?

I love this story, more as an adult than I did as a kid. I love the variety of characters and I sort of love that a century and a half ago, Wonderland was the place school children would dream of going, much like Hogwarts is to my generation. It's such a fun, fast-paced, creative story and Alice is the most wonderful child. She's so well balanced, both polite and grumpy, and she carries the book. All y'all in love with Hatter and the Cheshire Cat? That's thanks to Disney's itinerations... Alice carries the original story.

What I love most, though, is that this novel never gets old. Every time, there are new details to be discovered. It's good in any format (Scarlett Johnasson's reading is the best audiobook edition!) and it absolutely inspires to build bigger worlds and be more creative in my own writing and in my own life.

Simply put, I love Alice and all her adventures.

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