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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Hardback
Main Details
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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Authors and Contributors |
Illustrated by John Tenniel
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By (author) Lewis Carroll
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Series | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:448 | Dimensions(mm): Height 204,Width 138 |
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Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780141192468
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Classifications | Dewey:FIC |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Penguin Classics
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Publication Date |
1 October 2009 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down- a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.
Author Biography
Lewis Carroll (Author) Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.
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