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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

(Modern Library Classics)

By A.S. Byatt, Lewis Carroll

(1021)

| Paperback | 9780375761386

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Book Description

Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. “The clue to the enduring fascinContinue

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A book that made my childhood. To read first in English and then in translation: some translators are wonderful acrobats and this book is a challenge for every translator. But you can come out alive.

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Carolina Ramos said on Oct 13, 2007 | 1 feedback

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There's some unexpected wisdom in the madness, too.

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Arkadievna said on Feb 22, 2010 | Add your feedback

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Said the Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm mad.You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad ?" said Alice.
"You must be or you wouldn't have come here"
...per l'appunto.

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Pollapollina said on Jul 5, 2011 | Add your feedback

Splendida edizione da collezione, piccolina, in lingua originale, con i bordi delle pagine color oro e le illustrazioni a colori!!

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Blanche Neige said on Jan 15, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

A wonderful book that I have missed in my childhood.

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aub said on Nov 15, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out--
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.
Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic ban ... (continue)

Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out--
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.
Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Plucked in a far-off land.

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Francy! said on Aug 22, 2011 | Add your feedback