through the looking glass and what alice found there book

'If you think we're waxworks, you ought to pay you know.' The drawing of Alice is a direct copy of the famous painting 'My The man in the white paper hat is thought to be a caricature of Benjaminĭisraeli. He did, however, send three advance copies of the book to the Liddellįamily with 'the one for Alice being bound in morocco' as he noted in his diary. Looking Glass was published, Alice Liddell was nineteen years old andĭodgson rarely saw her, although he remembered her fondly for the rest of his His young child-friends growing up and entering the adult world. Prefaced by an extremely sad poem which reflects Dodgson's own feelings about With Alices Adventures in Wonderland the story ends with Alice wakingįrom a dream but the tone of the book is altogether more melancholy and is

With many fine nonsense poems and songs which are still quoted from today. Along the way she encounters some of Carroll's most memorable andĮnduring characters, among them Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Walrus and theĬarpenter, The Lion and the Unicorn, and the Jabberwock. She travels across the board until she is crowned queen at theĮighth square. Landscape there is in the form of a giant chess board and Alice enters the gameĪs a white pawn. Strange world entered through a mirror above her drawing-room fireplace. It saves time.'ĭescribes Alice's adventures as she moves symbolically from child to adult in a With Alice is widely believed to be a caricature of Dodgson himself. The White Knight depicted on the frontispiece Dodgson's favourite of theĭaughters was Alice and it was she who became the heroine of the stories. Many of theĬharacters in the book would be instantly recognisable to them as they wereīased on people they knew, in and around Oxford. Of the Reverend Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church. The Aliceīooks were based on stories he told to entertain the three eldest daughters Them with puzzles, games and stories he had devised. He was extremely fond of children and loved to entertain Lewis Carroll was the pseudonym of the ReverendĬharles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), a shy mathematics don at ChristĬhurch, Oxford. Surprising that the satirical and witty Alice books flourished,īeing enjoyed by adults as well as children. Instructional or were dry tales with a pious moral message so it is not Sold extremely well, with 15,000 copies being bought in the first seven It is the sequel to the immensely popularĪlice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1866). at Christmas, 1871 but post-datedġ872 on the title page. Lewis Carroll's classic Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found

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Through the looking glass and what alice found there book