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The two 'Alice' books are masterpieces of carefree nonsense for children and also embody layers of satire and allusion and mathematical, linguistic, and philosophical jokes. This new edition explores their complex status and the many interpretations of them, taking account of the most recent research and critical opinion.

Title Alice's adventures in Wonderland : and what Alice found there / Lewis Carroll
edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Hunt
with illustrations by John Tenniel.
Edition 2nd ed.
Publisher Oxford, England : Oxford University Press
Creation Date [2009]
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of C. L. Dodgson/'Lewis Carroll' -- ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND -- Prefatory Poem -- Preface to the Seventy-ninth Thousand (1886) -- Preface to the Eighty-sixth Thousand (1896) -- Contents -- ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND -- THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS -- Chess Problem -- Dramatis Personæ -- Prefatory Poem -- Advertisement [for the 'Sixtieth Thousand'] (1893) -- Preface to the Sixty-first Thousand (1896) -- Contents -- THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE -- Christmas-Greetings [from a Fairy to a Child] -- To all Child-Readers of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' -- An Easter Greeting to Every Child who Loves 'Alice' -- Appendix: 'The Wasp in a Wig' -- Explanatory Notes.
Series Oxford World's Classics
Extent 1 online resource (xxi, 454 p.) : ill.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2009
National Library system number 997010720846105171
MARC RECORDS
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