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

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- Book: [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass](https://www.bookquiver.com/lewis-carrol/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass) ([Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lewis-carrol/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass.md))
- Authors: [LEWIS CARROL](https://www.bookquiver.com/lewis-carrol)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-463-7
- Published: 2012-08-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'" Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). " Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!"' 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disorderly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.