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The Penguin English Library Edition of Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis CarrollCuriouser and curiouser! cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). Now Im opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards, wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one golden aftern...

Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole. At the bottom she finds herself in a bizarre world full of strange creatures, and attends a very odd tea party and croquet match. This immensely witty and unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, to provide an astute depiction of the experience of childhood. Illustrated by John TennielIncludes Through the Look...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.Format: Paperback | 64 pages Anul aparitiei: 129 x 198 x 4mm | 77g

Alice is sitting by the river when suddenly a white rabbit runs past her. Then the rabbit takes a watch out of its coat pocket and says it is late! Alice is very surprised. She runs after the rabbit and follows it into a large rabbit hole.This is how Alices adventures begin. In Wonderland she meets a caterpillar that smokes a pipe, a baby that turns into a pig, a Queen who wants to have everyones head cut off, and many more strange people and animals.Find out why the White Rabbit is in a hurry, ...

An einem heissen und langweiligen Nachmittag folgt Alice einem weissen Kaninchen in seinen Bau. Dabei landet sie an einem ausserst merkwurdigen Ort - dem Wunderland. Dort ist nichts wie es scheint: Tiere konnen sprechen, Kuchen und Getranke lassen Alice wachsen und schrumpfen, ein verruckter Hutmacher ladt zur Teeparty. Und dann trifft Alice auch noch auf die gefurchtete Herzkonigin, die ihre Untertanen gerne einen Kopf kurzer macht.show moreISBN: 9783852722320Nr pagini: 84 pagesFormat: 149 x 21...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''It\\''s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.\\''In Carroll\\''s sequel to Alice\\''s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through a mirror and enters a looking-glass world where nothing is quite as it seems. From her guest appearance as a pawn in a chess match to her meeting with Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking Glass follows Alice ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"''So begins the tale of Alice, who follows a curious White Rabbit down a hole and falls into Wonderland, a fantastical...

This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were.Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ah...

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel's much loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other works of a humorous, witty, whimsical and nonsensical nature such as the mock-heroic nonsense verse 'The Hunting of the Snark',...

This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are Carroll's delightful verses such as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' and the inspired j...