Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
1889
- adventure and adventurers
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- adventure stories
- adventure travel
- animals
- anthropomorphism
- artists' illustrated books
- books and reading
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- child and youth fiction
The story
A very real little girl named Alice follows a remarkable rabbit down a rabbit hole and steps through a looking-glass to come face to face with some of the strangest adventures and some of the oddest characters in all literature. The crusty Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire-Cat, Tweedledum and Tweedledee--each one is more eccentric, and more entertaining, than the last. And all of them could only have come from the pen of Lewis Carroll, one of the few adults ever to enter successfully the children's world of make-believe--a wonderland where the impossible becomes possible, the unreal, real...where the heights of adventure are limited only by the depths of imagination. --back cover Contains: - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193508W) - [Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15298516W)
What it’s like
Dreamlike and bright-edged, with a sly, playful voice that trades in nonsense logic, crisp deadpan dialogue, and sudden shifts of scale: a girl shrinking to a few inches, a pack of cards rising to fight. The prose is light and quick, full of small domestic details (a dormouse in a teapot, a garden of painted roses, a chessboard laid out across green fields) set against the strangeness of talking animals and tea parties that never end. Tenniel's original wood engravings, black-and-white and fine-lined, give the pages a Victorian storybook texture, and the whole reads like a late-afternoon nap taken in a sunny room. The mood is curious and amused, with a thread of unease in the Queen's rages and the Jabberwock's shadow, but nothing lingers in dread. Violence is absent; the worst is shouting, threats of beheading that never happen, and the odd tearful moment. It suits a slow reread, a bedtime read-aloud, or a comfort book on a quiet Sunday. For readers who enjoy whimsy, wordplay, and absurd conversation, and for anyone who wants something gentle with a clever, unhurried rhythm.
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