Through the Looking Glass

基本信息·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：176 页
·出版日期：1994年06月
·ISBN：0140620877
·条形码：9780140620870
·版本：New Ed
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Penguin Popular Classics
·外文书名：魔镜(企鹅流行经典系列)

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I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ...without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Charles Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a disordered tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles, paradoxes and riddles, are poignant moments of elegiac nostalgia for lost childhood. Startlingly original and experimental, the Alice books provide readers with a double window on both child and adult worlds.