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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...

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.

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',...