Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Througt the Looking-Glass

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 Tennel.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 apparentlt simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces,and extraordinary experiments,years ahead of their time,in Modernism and Surrealism.Through wordplay,parody and logical and philosophical puzzles.Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts,teasing,ominous or malncholy.For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere.The author reveals himself in glimpses.