ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Roger Lancelyn Green With original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel
"Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
So many readers were to take the advice of the King of Hearts that by the end of the nineteenth century the double Alce (1865 and 1872) had acquired a pre-eminent and unassailable position in children's literature. Lewis Carrolf's use of logic, by which the ordinary is translated into the extraonfinary in an entirely plausible way, is delightfully combined with an exceptional knowledge and understanding of the mind of the child. Satire, allusion, and symbolism weave deeper and mysterious meanings, lendin…