Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Die Einwohner des Wunderlands sind längst im allgemeinen Bewusstsein verankert: das Weiße Kaninchen, die Grinsekatze ... und natürlich Alice, die mal größer, mal kleiner wird, an einer verrückten Teeparty teilnimmt und auf lebendige Spielkarten trifft, mit denen sie Croquet spielt - und dabei alle Skurrilitäten mit Klarheit und rationalem Erstaunen beobachtet.
"Through the Looking-Glass" führt Alice in eine Welt voller Spiegelungen und Kinderreime. Hier trifft sie u.a. Humpty Dumpty und die Zwillinge Tweedledee und Tweedledum. Während Kinder von Alice fasziniert sind, weil die Heldin ihre Gedanken und Gefühle des Erwachsenwerdens repräsentiert, schätzen Erwachsene das Buch als schlaue Satire auf das Viktorianische Leben, seine Erziehung, Politik und Literatur. Lewis Carrolls Fantasiewelten, Bilder und Gleichnisse beeinflussen bis heute die verschiedensten Künstler, Schriftsteller, Musiker und Filmemacher.

Informationen zum Autor Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno. Klappentext Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen. Zusammenfassung In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and, a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.

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Lewis Carroll; Illustrated by John Tenniel

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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.

Zusammenfassung
In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and, a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.