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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) | 
| Author: Lewis Carroll
Creator: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Signet Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 5690
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0451527747
EAN: 9780451527745
ASIN: 0451527747
Publication Date: December 1, 2000
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Product Description
The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat-characters each more eccentric than the last, and that could only have come from Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense. In these two brilliant burlesques he created two of the most famous and fantastic novels of all time that not only stirred our imagination but revolutionized literature.
Featuring the exquisite line drawings created for the original edition
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 I don't know...is it good? December 31, 2008
Sandhya Surapaneni (Eden Prairie, MN)
This book is whimsical and crazy. It reads like a children's fantasy story. There must be something deeper to it. Why would millions rave about it otherwise? Unfortunately, i didn't get it. Must read it again and try to figure it out. I rate it highly because several of my friends liked it and i'm still drawn to it.
 Soso December 4, 2008
Steven R. McEvoy (Canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Alice's Adventure
My first impressions of this book were that it was like reading C.S. Lewis on cheap drugs. The events are complete non sequiturs and the changes in plot are worse.
It appears to be a spoiled child wandering in a world she does not understand, nor is willing to learn about - unlike Lucy in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe who seeks to understand the local customs and circumstances.
The book is very easy to read but it leaves distaste in my literary mouth. I know it is considered a classic but I just do not see it, and if I did not have to read it for school I would not have bothered to finish it.
(First written as Journal Reading Notes in 1999.)
Through the Looking Glass
Though this book is not much better than Alice's Adventures, the chess motif and theme does make the book much more interesting. With the bossy, dominant Red Queen and the quiet, kind, messy white queen, the book is a study in contrasts.
The interweaving of the Nursery Rhyme Characters and the frequent fish poetry references does provide more continuity and a sense of sequential events than Alice's first adventure. I also appreciated the linking of the cat at the beginning and end of the story.
It does still feel like Carroll did way too many opium pipes in his time.
(First written as Journal Reading Notes in 1999.)
 What's the Fuss All About? November 18, 2008
L. A. Vitale
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ugh, I found both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" & "Through the Looking Glass" to be thoroughly frustrating and painstaking to read. Both novels were way too wacky and filled with continuous, non-stop bizarre nonsense, that it became to distracting to read at times. There were several times that I had wanted to stop reading each novel, but persevered only because I wanted to see why these two novels are such beloved classics.
However, I don't understand why these two novels are so beloved. They are just too bizarre... Was Lewis Carroll on some sort of drugs while writing these novels or what?
Books that won't let you back in November 14, 2008
Seth Davidson (Los Angeles)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This marvelous book has become such a part of our culture that it's impossible to separate the phenomenon from the actual work. And perhaps it's folly to even try.
I grew up with a hard backed copy of Alice in Wonderland and remember going through the pages countless times, gazing at the magnificent pictures--especially the Jabberwock--and giggling at the poetry. "Father William" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter" still occupy parts of my brain as snatches and shards that want to pop out at awkward moments.
That battle worn, orange backed book, handed down I'm pretty sure from my Dad, and read by him with equal enthusiasm when he was a kid, is long gone, and now that I'm armed with a Kindle I downloaded a copy to enjoy a fine book from my youth. If it's true that you can't go home again, it's even more true that some books will never let you back in. This is one of them.
I'm not sure if the fantastic lives of fantasy and fiction that play out daily as hard news have diluted our ability to plunge unrestrained into a book like Alice in Wonderland, or if the book refuses to give up its virtues a second time for a plainer reason: despite its monolithic stature in the pantheon of classics, it was originally written, and still remains, a children's story. Pick it up and expect something more, and you may be disappointed.
The prose still snaps and crackles like a bowl of fresh cereal, and the imaginary images still effortlessly dance across your mind's eye, but something's missing, whether in the book or the reader you'll have to judge for yourself. As an eco-friendly Kindle purchase, however, I strongly recommend it, and if you've never read it before, well, what are waiting for?
 It's Amazing July 14, 2008
Sarah Galperin (USA)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
I am very happy with this ebook! Well done. Illustrated. I would recommend this product to any fan of Alice in Wonderland!
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