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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Penguin) - Lewis Carroll [173]

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their pronunciation: so it may be well to give instructions on that point also. Pronounce “slithy” as if it were the two words “sly, the”: make the ‘g’ hard in “gyre” and “gimble”: and pronounce “rath” to rhyme with “bath.”

For this sixty-first thousand, fresh electrotypes have been taken from the wood-blocks (which, never having been used for printing from, are in as good condition as when first cut in 1871), and the whole book has been set up afresh with new type. If the artistic qualities of this re-issue fall short, in any particular, of those possessed by the original issue, it will not be for want of painstaking on the part of author, publisher, or printer.

I take this opportunity of announcing that the Nursery “Alice,” hitherto priced at four shillings, net, is now to be had on the same terms as the ordinary shilling picture-books—although I feel sure that it is, in every quality (except the text itself, on which I am not qualified to pronounce), greatly superior to them. Four shillings was a perfectly reasonable price to charge, considering the very heavy initial outlay I had incurred: still, as the Public have practically said “We will not give more than a shilling for a picture-book, however artistically got-up,” I am content to reckon my outlay on the book as so much dead loss, and, rather than let the little ones, for whom it was written, go without it, I am selling it at a price which is, to me, much the same thing as giving it away.

Christmas,1896.

Table of Contents

Cover

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

FURTHER READING

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

A NOTE ON TENNIEL

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

CONTENTS

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

Through the looking-glass

CONTENTS

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?

Alice’s Adventures under ground

INTRODUCTION: ALICES ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

“ALICE” ON THE STAGE

NOTES TO ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

NOTES TO THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

APPENDIX I: Preface to the Eighty-sixth Thousand of the 6/- Edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

APPENDIX II: Preface to the Sixty-first Thousand Edition of Through the Looking-Glass

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