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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics)
by: Lewis Carroll

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780141439761
ISBN: 0141439769
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: April 29, 2003
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Sales Rank: 11756
Studio: Penguin Classics

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Wonderland
I just finished reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There" in two days. There's a reason why these stories are considered classics. Like "Peter Pan" and "Chronicles of Narnia", these are tales that help us return to our childhood and re-experience the magic that we've felt and imagined. A smoking caterpillar and a disappearing cat may be absurd, but they're really imaginative. And I do believe that "Wonderland" and "Looking-Glass" are open to interpretation, since the word play and the riddles found here are too silly to be scientific.

I don't mind Hugh Haughton's annotated texts, as long as just enjoy reading these two children's tales peacefully.

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- Only Two Stars for the Penguin Edition
It's a fantastic book, of course, and it certainly doesn't need me to praise it as millions have done before. It's probably one of the most unique things ever written: the only book that could be considered both completely a children's story and completely a book for adults. The only problem with the Penguin edition is that it's grossly over-annotated. For scholars this may be very helpful, but sadly enough a lot of the notes are either irrelevant to non-professors or provide critical instead of historical or biographical commentary which, in my opinion, ruins the greatest delight of the book: AAIW/TLG are highly interpretable and symbolic stories, but unfortunately the commentator is always interrupting like a nagging pedant before the reader has a chance to reflect. Once again, both stories well deserve their status as true English classics but another edition might be a better choice.

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- Delightfully silly and witty
I had not read these books since I was probably seven or eight, and I am glad that I finally got around to reading them again. These are some of the most fun childrens books (or any books for that matter) ever written. A previous reviewer gave this book a poor rating because it was only a childrens book. I fail to understand how being a childrens book means that a book is bad. Many childrens book are among the best books that I have ever read. Just because a book is a childrens book does not mean that it is a book just for children. Lewis Carroll wrote this for children, but it is probably even more enjoyable for me to read now than it was when I was a child, for now I understand many of the double meanings and world plays that you would never understand as a child. Carroll is better with word plays than any other author that I can recall reading. He is a master of molding sentences that simply slide right ... Read More

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- pay no attention to the fool below me
I was shocked when i saw that the Alice books got 3 stars. these are literary classics , the two most complicated "children books" with many levels of interpretation. I know people have different tastes but this deserved an overall score of at least four.

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