When Alice steps through the looking glass she enters a world of chess pieces and nursery-rhyme characters who behave very oddly. Humpty Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White Knight and the Red Queen - like everything through the looking glass - are "contrariwise".
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'Through the Looking-Glass' is recognized by the American Library Association as one of their 2007 Notable Children's Recordings. -- The Story Circle "American Library Association"
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Lewis Carroll (1832-98), whose real name was Charles Dodgson, taught mathematics at Oxford University and wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for a real little girl called Alice Liddell. Later he wrote Through the Looking-Glass, and the two Alice stories are among the most famous books ever written for children.
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This beatifully produced little book contains Lewis Carroll's classic work of inverted logic (or nonsense ) which needs no comment from me. The drawings by Mervyn Peake are a lot darker in nature than the more familiar ones by Tenniel, but if you enjoyed Gormenghast you will find them very much to your taste.
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The Authoritative Full-Coloured Presentation by Carroll's Own Publisher
11 Oct 2008
By chatvarin
Format:Hardcover
I have said it all before for the companion "Wonderland" volume, but I'll paste it here again.
Among the countless editions of Carroll's classics to have come out over the years, I don't think any beats Macmillan's. Generally speaking, Carroll's own publisher seems to take much pride in being the originator of this masterpiece and have always presented the book in the most faithful manners to Carroll's and Tenniel's original visions. With the advent of a new age in publishings everything is required to jump out at the progressively wanting in concentration youngsters with really rather explosive brilliancy and exuberance. So here Macmillan has at last commissioned the remainders of Tenniel's illustrations not coloured by Theaker to be coloured in a complementary hand. The result is an all-new sparkling edition, larger than any they have previously published and quite decidedly more sparkling. Incidentally, the demand of full-coloured illustrations in-and-amongst the text has, coincidentally enough, reverted the book to its original sumptuous quality paper unseen for years. This with Macmillan's laudable continued commitment to offer the world the book in as close an appearance to what Carroll intended as possible - with great intregrity in the typeset and positioning of the text and illustrations - ultimately created a highly collectable edition. In the reissued papaerback edition of this one, Philip Pullman commends the colouring of the illustrations fro having defied his apprehension in such a tampering with what work perfectly in black-and-white. It does not little of its eccentric, Victorian charms, but still delights admirers of the original notwithstanding.
Among the countless editions of Carroll's classics to have come out over the years, I don't think any beats Macmillan's. Generally speaking, Carroll's own publisher seems to take much pride in being the originator of this masterpiece and have always presented the book in the most faithful manners to Carroll's and Tenniel's original visions. With the advent of a new age in publishings everything is required to jump out at the progressively wanting in concentration youngsters with really rather explosive brilliancy and exuberance. So here Macmillan has at last commissioned the remainders of Tenniel's illustrations not coloured by Theaker to be coloured in a complementary hand. The result is an all-new sparkling edition, larger than any they have previously published and quite decidedly more sparkling. Incidentally, the demand of full-coloured illustrations in-and-amongst the text has, coincidentally enough, reverted the book to its original sumptuous quality paper unseen for years. This with Macmillan's laudable continued commitment to offer the world the book in as close an appearance to what Carroll intended as possible - with great intregrity in the typeset and positioning of the text and illustrations - ultimately created a highly collectable edition. In the reissued papaerback edition of this one, Philip Pullman commends the colouring of the illustrations fro having defied his apprehension in such a tampering with what work perfectly in black-and-white. It does not little of its eccentric, Victorian charms, but still delights admirers of the original notwithstanding.
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I searched for the version of Alice illustrated by Mervyn Peake and Amazon directed me here. But this Kindle version features no illustrations at all.
I suspect this is the fault of Amazon.
As for this un-illustrated edition - it's fine. Yes it's formatted for the Kindle.
I suspect this is the fault of Amazon.
As for this un-illustrated edition - it's fine. Yes it's formatted for the Kindle.
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I was very happy with the fast delivery of the book and also the book too. The book was correctly described and i am very happy as the book is my childhood favourite! Thank you.
Published 8 months ago by SS3891
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Is this really unabridged?
This isn't bad, having a quite good cast, though Alice herself is too shrill and babylike.
I do wonder though whether this really is unabridged. Read more
I do wonder though whether this really is unabridged. Read more
Published on 23 July 2010 by I. P. Lund
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*charming*
Lovely classic illustrations and simple, perfect layout, brilliant for adults and children, a realy nice item.
Published on 30 Oct 2009 by Ms. S. K. Leach
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Soso
Though this book is not much better than Alice's Adventures, the chess motif and theme does make the book much more interesting. Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2008 by Steven R. McEvoy
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Soso
Though this book is not much better than Alice's Adventures, the chess motif and theme does make the book much more interesting. Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2008 by Steven R. McEvoy
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