Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Penguin) - Lewis Carroll [0]
AND
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
AND WHAT ALICE POUND THERE
LEWIS CARROLL was the pen-name of the Revd Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855, and where he spent the rest of his life. He wrote numerous satirical pamphlets on Oxford politics, including Notes by an Oxford Chiel (1874), and works on logic such as Euclid and His Modern Rivals and Symbolic Logic (1896). He also became a pioneering amateur portrait photographer, specializing in Victorian celebrities and children. Though Dodgson never married, children were the main interest of his life. After the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), both of which were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of his college, he became the most famous children’s writer of the day. In addition to his two nonsense classics, he also published several books of nonsense verse, including Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1896), The Hunting of the Snark (1876) and Rhyme? And Reason? (1882); numerous books of puzzles and games such as The Game of Logic (1887); and towards the close of his life, a long children’s novel in two parts, Sylvie and Bruno (1889, 1893). He died in 1898.
HUGH HAUGHTON is a senior lecturer at the University of York. He has edited Gustav Janouch’s Conversations with Kafka (1985), The Chatto Book of Nonsense Poetry (1988), Rudyard Kipling’s Wee Willie Winkie (1988) and co-edited, with Adam Phillips, John Clare in Context (1994).
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
AND
Through the Looking-Glass
and What Alice Found There
THE CENTENARY EDITION
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
HUGH HAUGHTON
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, first published 1865
Through the Looking-Glass first published 1872
Alice’s Adventures under Ground first published in facsimile edition 1895 and
reproduced by permission of the British Library (Add Ms 46.700)
Published in Penguin Classics 1998
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EISBN: 978–0–141–90936–3
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
FURTHER READING
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
A NOTE ON TENNIEL
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
CONTENTS
I DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE
II THE POOL OF TEARS
III A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE
IV THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL
V ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR
VI PIG AND PEPPER
VII A MAD TEA-PARTY
VIII THE QUEEN’S CROQUET-GROUND
IX THE MOCK TURTLE’S STORY
X THE LOBSTER-QUADRILLE
XI WHO STOLE THE TARTS?
XII ALICE’S EVIDENCE
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
CONTENTS
I LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE
II THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS
III LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS
IV TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE
V WOOL AND WATER
VI HUMPTY DUMPTY
VII