Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There -puffin

Autor: CARROLL,Lewis

Editorial: PENGUIN BOOKS Ltd.

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN13: 9780141330075

Reseña: Puffin Classics - the worlds favourite stories - relaunched with exciting new covers. You never know where youll find yourself in Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll! Join Alice on her weird and wonderful journey where nothing is quite as it seems. When Alice steps through the looking-glass she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and in fact through the looking-glass everything is distorted. Lewis Carroll born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98) grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alices Adventures in Wonderland inspired by Alice Liddell the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford was published in 1865 followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno. The book includes a behind-the-scenes journey including an author profile a guide to whos who activities and more.. The Puffin Classics relaunch includes: A Little Princess Alices Adventures in Wonderland Alices Adventures Through the Looking Glass Anne of Green Gables Black Beauty Hans Andersens Fairy Tales Heidi Journey to the Centre of the Earth Little Women Peter Pan Tales of the Greek Heroes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of King Arthur The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Call of the Wild The Jungle Book The Odyssey The Secret Garden The Wind in the Willows The Wizard of Oz Treasure Island