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

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Simon and Schuster, Nov 16, 2010 - Fiction - 336 pages
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass have captured the imaginations of readers since their publications. After Alice follows the frantically delayed White Rabbit down a hole, her adventures in the magical world of Wonderland begin. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, she meets a variety of wonderful creatures, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts—who, with the help of her enchanted deck of playing cards, tricks Alice into playing a bizarre game of croquet. Her adventures continue in Through the Looking-Glass, which is loosely based on a game of chess and includes Carroll’s famous poem “Jabberwocky.”

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Contents

Down the Rabbit Hole
7
The Pool of Tears
16
A Caucus Race and a Long Tale
24
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
32
Pig and Pepper
53
A Mad Tea Party
65
The Queens Croquet Ground
76
WHO STOLE THE TARTS?
107
WOOL AND WATER
188
HUMPTY DUMPTY
201
THE LION AND THE UNICORN
216
ITS MY OWN INVENTION
228
QUEEN ALICE
245
SHAKING
263
WAKING
264
WHICH DREAMED IT?
265

ALICES EVIDENCE
115
THROUGH THE LOOKINGGLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE
125
AUTHORS PREFACE
127
LOOKINGGLASS HOUSE
133
THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS
148
LOOKINGGLASS INSECTS
160
TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE
172
NOTES
269
INTERPRETIVE NOTES
283
CRITICAL EXCERPTS
297
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
311
SUGGESTIONS FOR the Interested ReadER
314
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About the author (2010)

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. He is especially remembered for bringing to life the beloved and long-revered tale of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

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