Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass [Hardcover]

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Selected forThe Great American Read, the PBS series celebrating Americas 100 most-loved books.

It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that have kept readers spellbound for more than 150 years.

Collected here are Lewis Carroll's two classics -Alice's Adventures in WonderlandandThrough the Looking-Glass- in which Alice encounters the laconic Cheshire Cat, the anxious White Rabbit and the terrifying Red Queen, as well as a host of other outlandish and charming characters.

This edition is brought to life by Sir John Tenniel's legendary illustrations in colour, and with an afterword by Anna South.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, celebrated under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was born in 1832, the third in a large and talented family of eleven children. His fascination with word games, puzzles and writing was evident from an early age. He was educated at Rugby School and then Christ Church, Oxford, where he was later appointed lecturer in mathematics and subsequently spent the rest of his life there. Alongside his academic life he pursued a career both as a writer and an accomplished amateur photographer. His most famous works areAlice's Adventures in Wonderland(1865), its sequelThrough the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There(1871) andThe Hunting of the Snark(1876). He died, unmarried, in 1898.