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, 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 round?as seen through the expert eyes of a child.

272 pages, illustrations

Media	Kirjat Paperback Book (Kirja pehmeillä kansilla ja liimatulla selällä)
Julkaisupäivämäärä	tiistai 1. toukokuuta 1984
ISBN13	9780553213454
Tuottaja	Random House USA Inc
Sivujen määrä	272
Mitta	176 × 106 × 14 mm · 136 g
Kieli	English