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Alice in Wonderland (De Luxe Classics S) (Hardcover)

by Lewis Carroll (Author) "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 223 pages
  • Publisher: Purnell (20 Mar 1986)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0361028008
  • ISBN-13: 978-0361028004
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 500,429 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars CORRECTION..., 8 Feb 2002
By Dennis E. Sisterson (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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The above synopsis remarks that this edition includes the previously missing 'Wasp in a Wig' episode - in fact it doesn't. That chapter (actually only part of chapter) appears in another edition... however this edition includes comprehensive notes second only to Martin Gardner's annotated edition as well as the full text of Carroll's first draft, 'Alice's Adventures Underground'. As such, this is probably the best value edition of these ingenious and priceless works.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyment for anyone of any age., 8 Jul 2001
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the adventures of Alice is a timeless classic which should be in ever children's library. Following the adventures of Alice, makes you go on an adveture of your own. childern will love it and adults should not disregard it as just a book for childern as there is a deeper side to the story too. Within the frame of a idillic young girl's adventure is Lewis Carroll's own philosophy and debated ideas on an idea world. A story to be enjoyed again and again, for anyone of any age.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quite charming, really, 21 Jan 2003
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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I must confess I had never read the account of Alice's adventures before. As an adult, though, I found the two books to be quite charming and fun to read. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland is the much more enjoyable tale of the two, perhaps because so much of it was already familiar to me as a part of popular culture. Through the Looking Glass seemed to me to be much more contrived and less magical. I found myself trying to puzzle out hidden messages and motifs in the latter work, while I basically just read the Wonderland story for pure enjoyment. The latter tale also seemed to fall apart at the seams as it began to approach its conclusion. Without rereading the books, I have trouble seeing all of the complex and satirical things mentioned by academic types (such as a critique of Victorian society and contemporary educational methods), nor does the whole chess game motif make complete sense to me, although the workings of the game apparently pleased the mathematician in Carroll's alter-ego enough that he attempts to explain it at the start of Through the Looking Glass.

It was a treat to see the original illustrations of John Tenniel interspersed throughout both stories, despite the fact that Alice appears a good bit more sullen than I envision her in my own mind. It was also good to be formally introduced to such well-known entities as the Cheshire Cat, although Humpty Dumpty certainly comes across as a rather taciturn figure. For those of you who love puns, Lewis Carroll offers you a gold mine of them, although I doubt that many children will actually understand very many of them until they reach an age in which they will probably reject a reading of Carroll as "baby stuff." I'm no expert on children's literature (or on children, for that matter), but the story of Alice's adventures would seem to offer a free ticket to an enticing fantasy world for youngsters and a delightfully quaint vacation spot for adult readers.

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