Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass is a classic work of English children’s literature and literary nonsense, bringing together Lewis Carroll’s two Alice novels in one Wordsworth Classics edition. The stories follow Alice as she enters two dreamlike worlds: first the unstable, illogical landscape of Wonderland, and then the mirror-world of Through the Looking-Glass, where chess, language, riddles, poems, and strange rules shape every encounter. Carroll builds the books around absurd conversations, comic reversals, wordplay, and philosophical puzzles, while John Tenniel’s famous illustrations give lasting visual form to characters such as the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, and the Red Queen. Beneath the playful surface, the two novels explore childhood curiosity, authority, identity, logic, and the confusing rules adults create, leaving Alice to ask again and again how a sensible child is supposed to understand a world that keeps changing its own meaning.
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Year published: 1992
Number of pages: 288
Original language: English
