Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Carroll, Lewis |
| Publisher: | Bantam Classics |
| Date: | 5/1/1984 |
| Binding: | Mass-market Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, createda story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit began the immortaladventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature.
Countlessscholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books—with those wonderfullyeccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the CheshireCat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.—by proclaiming that they really comprisea satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children’s literature,even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history.
Perhaps, as Dodgson mighthave said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulationsof growing up—or down, or all turned round—as seen through the expert eyes of a child.
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