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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Carroll, Lewis (Author), Tenniel, John (Illustrator), Byatt, A. S. (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0375761381     ISBN-13: 9780375761386
Publisher: Modern Library
OUR PRICE:   $9.90  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: December 2002
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Annotation: Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and "Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. "The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the "Alice books," writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction, "lies in language. . . . It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children."
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Fantasy - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2002029506
Lexile Measure: 640
Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.24" W x 8.02" (0.55 lbs) 304 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

Introduction by A. S. Byatt
Illustrations by John Tenniel
Includes commissioned endnotes

Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. "The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books," writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction, "lies in language. It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children."

Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide