This special edition brings together both of Lewis Carroll’s marvelous tales set in the whimsical world beyond the looking glass and down the rabbit hole. Caroll’s first novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, finds Alice stuck in Wonderland, surrounded by curious creatures and with no idea of how to return home. With questionable aid from the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, Alice eventually finds her way back home. But the enigmatic Alice can’t stay away for long, and she finds herself back in Wonderland in the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
Most adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s beloved books have combined the stories featured in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, including the 1951 animated Disney film Alice in Wonderland. More recently, director Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010), starring Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp, used Wonderland lore to create an entirely new storyline about Alice and many of the other characters made famous by Carroll’s novels.
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"Obviously, I love this book. For those of you who don't know I'm writing my senior thesis on it. It's been a constant companion of mine for the past few months and I'm both sad and thrilled to finally be parting with it...at least until next time I get an inkling to read one of my favorite children's tales."
— Kaitie (5 out of 5 stars)
“A book of wonder and nonsense laced with lethal wit.”
— Guardian (London)“Precise, dream-like, subversive.”
— Independent on Sunday (London)“For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old.”
— Amazon.com" Easily the most entertaining audio book I have ever heard! Christopher Plummer is a national treasure. "
— Gary Smith, 10/21/2019" I love Christopher Plummer's voice. It's rich and buttery and the way he reads the story adds new life to a classic tale. "
— Joan S. , 10/1/2016" Deep and complex. A captivating, if slightly disconcerting, read. "
— Matthew, 2/18/2014" I loved the symbolism throughout... all the truths and challenges about growing up. "
— Crizzle, 2/13/2014" A strange book but in a good way! Loved it! "
— Nayera, 2/6/2014" Classics that should be part of every childhood. And every adult's inner child. Carroll's works are timeless exercises of the imagination that charm as well as challenge our perceptions. "
— Mona, 2/5/2014" I can't tell if the book just didn't age well for me or if I never would have liked it. It reads too much like what it was - a story told off the cuff for a little girl. The stories have no meaningful structure or plot, it's all just wacky characters. It's certainly creative but just a little too... twee? cute by half? infatuated by it's own cleverness? Hard to put my finger on it, but I didn't enjoy a page. "
— Stephen, 1/29/2014" Every time I read this book, it makes me angry! But there's something about it that is fantastic, because I continue to retread it. "
— Sara, 1/20/2014" Great children's book! It helps you to appreciate and remember what it was like being a kid and how you viewed or accepted things that were going on around you. It is weird and won't appeal to everybody, but I greatly enjoyed it. "
— Amber, 1/12/2014" Wonderful and full of nonsense! "
— Paula, 12/31/2013" I didn't mind the book, but I couldn't stand Alice as a character. The book didn't meet my expectations. "
— Alexis, 12/16/2013" Just read this book for the first time at the age of 35! I was intrigued for sure! How very different the movie was done. "
— Kimberly, 12/8/2013" It just takes a bit of tiredness... "
— Adam, 12/6/2013" Alice tripping the light fantastic. "
— Jackie, 12/4/2013" Best children's book besides Millions of Cats. "
— Chelsee, 12/3/2013" Funny and classic.. But it does not capture me hat way sme other books do.. "
— Panda, 11/3/2013" Who wouldn't like a classic. Enjoyed it alot! "
— Alisa, 8/1/2013" FAVOURITE BOOK OF ALL TIME. "
— Chloe, 4/9/2013" Lewis Carroll was an extremely talented scholar to have written these two books. Brilliant piece of literature which is so hard to find these days. "
— Charu, 12/3/2012" I have a copy of this book I have had since I was 8,I am now 50. I have re-read it many many times "
— Tina, 7/10/2012" Read this a long time ago, I enjoyed it. Fairly different from Disney's version (big surprise). "
— Elise, 5/17/2012" An extremely fun read and the jabs at politics and society in general are priceless. "
— Wade, 3/11/2012" One of my favorites of all time. If you read this as a child, you need to read it again as an adult. Soo many more things make sense and are absolutely hilarious that I missed the first time around. You can't get the full effect from watching the movies - this is definitely a must-read "
— Cjmueller, 2/24/2012" Definitely plan on reading this one again as I first read it when I was much younger. But I love this story. :) "
— Amanda, 11/28/2011" Well I like Alice so much I guess I tend to write "Alice-in-Wonderland-Like" according to my creative writing workshop feedback! "
— Kristina, 7/11/2011" Never think you're too old. "
— Alex, 6/10/2011" This story has no plot, and no structure. It seems almost like random thoughts going through the author's head in no organized manner. The only reason I kept reading was because it was crazy to watch Carrol's ideas unfold. "
— Gina, 5/17/2011" Lewis Carroll is just sooooooooo imaginative! I love the whole book; it definitely is a classic. There's so many creative poems in them, and the whole plot sucks the reader into the story. I really wish that Alice's adventures would never end! "
— Sherry, 5/2/2011" Not as good as Alice in Wonderland, but still delightful. The poetry in "Looking Glass" is better though. "
— Jed, 4/18/2011" This book wasn't as strange as the first, but it also felt slower, to me. Not that this book was awful. I loved the poetry in it, and it seems that there is more direction in this story. <br/> <br/>Probably not a book I'll ever read again, but one worth reading at least once. "
— Casey, 4/8/2011" Much better than Alice in Wonderland, which I liked, too. I had forgotten that I read large portions of this in my Logic class in college. Very fun. "
— Cory, 4/7/2011" This book is just marginally better than Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I'm just not taken with Carroll's style. He had a good imagination too bad he was such a bad writer. "
— Mary, 4/4/2011" Wonderfully illustrated and full of awesome colour! I loved th old style even though at times I didn't understand the book at all. I sure that the written version would add to my interest. "
— Cynthia, 4/4/2011" Hated it. Got about a third of the way through it and bailed. "
— Sean, 4/2/2011" We read this book on the class. "
— Yixin, 3/25/2011Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), English author, mathematician, and photographer. One of eleven children of a scholarly country parson, he studied mathematics at Oxford, obtained a university post, and then was ordained as a deacon but found true success with his masterpiece, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, now known as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which originated as a story told to a young friend, Alice Liddell, during a boating trip on the Thames. Among his other works are Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, The Hunting of the Snark, and Jabberwocky.
Christopher Plummer has acted in more than one hundred feature films, including The Man Who Would Be King, The Sound of Music, Stage Struck, and The Insider, and he has starred in three of the world’s most important theater companies: the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Stratford Festival of Canada. He received two Tony Awards for Best Actor, and he has been nominated for the award seven other times. He also received a London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for Becket. He has received Emmys, the John Gielgud Quill Award, the Edwin Booth Award, The Jason Robards Award for Excellence, and has been inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Beginners. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Elaine Taylor.