In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books--with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter, et al.--by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children’s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing up--or down, or all turned around--as seen through the expert eyes of a child.
This edition includes the original illustrations by John Tenniel and an introduction by Morton N. Cohen.
WHY DOES Lewis Carroll the man continue to provoke so much interest? And why have the two Alice books become thoroughly established as children’s classics while so many other books have fallen into neglect?
The answers to the two questions are closely related and emerge gradually as we examine the nature of the author and the events that led to the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
Introduction by Morton N. Cohen
Ⅰ
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
CHAPTER Ⅰ
Down the Rabbit-Hole
CHAPTER Ⅱ
The Pool of Tears
CHAPTER Ⅲ
A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
CHAPTER Ⅳ
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
CHAPTER Ⅴ
Advice from a Caterpillar
CHAPTER Ⅵ
Pig and Pepper
CHAPTER Ⅶ
A Mad Tea-Party
CHAPTER Ⅷ
The Queen’s Croquet Ground
CHAPTER Ⅸ
The Mock Turtle’s Story
CHAPTER Ⅹ
The Lobster-Quadrille
CHAPTER Ⅺ
Who Stole the Tarts?
CHAPTER Ⅻ
Alice’s Evidence
Ⅱ
Through the Looking-Glass
Preface to 1896 Edition
CHAPTER Ⅰ
Looking-Glass House
CHAPTER Ⅱ
The Garden of Live Flowers
CHAPTER Ⅲ
Looking-Glass Insects
CHAPTER Ⅳ
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
CHAPTER Ⅴ
Wool and Water
CHAPTER Ⅵ
Humpty Dumpty
CHAPTER Ⅶ
The Lion and the Unicorn
CHAPTER Ⅷ
"It’s My Own Invention".
CHAPTER Ⅸ
Queen Alice
CHAPTER Ⅹ
Shaking
CHAPTER Ⅺ
Waking
CHAPTER Ⅻ
Which Dreamed It?
