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On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket-watch, joins a mad tea party and plays croquet with the Queen. Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute.
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Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.
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Alicia era la niña más curiosa de Inglaterra. Le gustaban las adivinanzas, los gatos, las historias divertidas y los libros con dibujos.
Pero los que no tenían dibujos, no.
Y, como si lo hubiera hecho aposta, aquella tarde, su hermana, que era mayor que ella y creía que sabía muchas más cosas que Alicia, había decidido leer un libro gigante que estaba tan lleno de palabras que las letras tenían que encoger la barriga para no caerse de la página.
Pero...
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Master of gibberish Lewis Carroll brings his inventive style of writing to life once more in the collection "Jabberwocky and Other Poems." Though most famous for his creation of Wonderland and Alice's fall into the uncanny world of the nonsensical, Carroll used his wordsmithing ability to form inventive rhymes and lexicons in this collection. Words like "bandersnatch," "chortled," "tulgey," and even "Jabberwocky" are inventions of Carroll's mind....
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Las aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas se publicó originalmente en 1865. Nació de los relatos que Lewis Carroll improvisaba para tres amiguitas suyas, las hermanas Liddell, a una de las cuales está dedicado este libro. Con el paso de los años, Alicia se ha convertido en un libro clásico de la literatura universal, y aunque su autor lo escribió como una historia para niños, personas de todas las edades se lo han apropiado gracias...
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This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, a garden of talking flowers, and rude insects. Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass...
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One day, a young girl named Alice suddenly spots a frantic White Rabbit, wearing a waistcoat and carrying a pocket watch. She follows the hurried creature down a hole into the magical world of Wonderland. While there, Alice meets more crazy creatures, including the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar, and the Cheshire Cat, and plays a twisted game of croquet with the Queen of Hearts. But when the Queen turns against her, this dream-like world quickly becomes...
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Immerse yourself in a world of limitless imagination and boundless wonder with Lewis Carroll's classic tale, "Alice Through the Looking Glass." Follow the beloved character Alice as she travels through a strange and fantastical mirror-world, encountering a cast of curious characters and embarking on mind-bending adventures.
The story, is a sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" takes us deeper into the rabbit hole and explores the theme of...
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Alice s'ennuie et s'endort dans un fauteuil. Elle rêve qu'elle passe dans un autre monde, de l'autre cté du miroir du salon. Celui-ci est à la fois la campagne anglaise, un échiquier, et littéralement le monde à l'envers. Elle doit par exemple courir très vite pour rester sur place. Pour atteindre le jardin, elle doit d'abord s'en éloigner. De l'autre cté du miroir, notre héroïne croise des pièces d'échiquier et des personnages de la...
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This complete and unabridged edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland includes:
• 12 unique illustrations
• Introduction explaining how the story came to be
• Biography of the author containing little known facts
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly referred to as "Alice in Wonderland") is considered to be one of the most influential works of the 19th century and possibly of all time. Its characters, narrative, and...
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Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carroll's novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his masterpiece of nonsense verse "The Hunting of the Snark," and...
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Will you follow Alice down the rabbit hole? She shrinks, she grows and she gets into all sorts of mischief in Wonderland. After eating a peculiar cake Alice's adventures just begin. She meets many interesting characters along the way including the ever-late White Rabbit, the mellow Caterpillar, the grinning Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts. Will Alice make it out of Wonderland, head still intact?
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Experiencing a story read out loud is one of the oldest forms of entertainment there is. Fireside Reading is a way to slow down, reconnect with the timeless wisdom of great books and rediscover the simple pleasure of being read to. Join Gildart Jackson in
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A fine exclusive edition of one of literature's most beloved stories with full page call-outs with quotes from summer.
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close to her.
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books...
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The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll - "The Hunting of the Snark" (An Agony in 8 Fits) is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1874, when he was 42 years old. It describes "with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature".
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Lewis Carroll the author of the world famous Alice in Wonderland is well known even today for his fiction, but his tenure as professor of mathematics at Oxford university is less well known as is his love of logic problems. Carroll was a mathematician at heart; he deeply loved and was fascinated by the subject. At first it may seem odd that a creator of such nonsensical writings would have such an interest in this area, although the logic involved...
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Relato del inglés Lewis Carroll cuyo verdadero nombre era Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) publicado en 1865. Fruto de los cuentos que el autor improvisaba para tres niñas, una de ellas Alice Liddell de siete años. Como en el mito de Peter Pan, se basa en el anhelo y el temor a crecer. Se desarrolla según el ritmo de las canciones infantiles y plasma las fantasías y las pesadillas de la infancia. Esta obra maestra del nonsense (disparate)...