Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

A book of wonder and nonsense laced with lethal wit * Guardian *Without these two books in my childhood I doubt whether my imagination would have developed at allA marvellous confidence in the primacy of the imaginationTwo nightmare destinations. Wonderland and Looking Glass. The more I read these books, the darker they shine.. Carroll operates on language like a cruel, crazy surgeonPrecise, dream-like, subversive * Independent on Sunday *The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books lies in language…. It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be childrenOnly Lewis Carroll has shown us the world upside down the way a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh

Lewis Carroll’s real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was born on 27th January 1832 at Daresbury in Cheshire. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford University and later became a mathematics lecturer there. He wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872) for the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. He was very fond of puzzles and some readers have found mathematical jokes and codes hidden in his Alice books. His other works include Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869), The Hunting of the Snark (1876), Rhyme? And Reason? (1882), The Game of Logic (1887) and Sylvie and Bruno (1889, 1893). Dodgson was also an influential photographer. He died on 14th January 1898.