Alice in Wonderland
Author | : Lewis Carroll |
Publisher | : Dramatic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1965 |
ISBN-10 | : 0871292416 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780871292414 |
Rating | : 4/5 (414 Downloads) |
Download or read book Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1965 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books--with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.--by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children's literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about a trials and tribulations of growing up--or down, or all tumed round--as seen through the expert eyes of a child. From the Paperback edition.