Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Companion Library)

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Amazon.com Review:
"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" Taking to heart his charming, insatiably curious heroine's words, Lewis Carroll worked many long hours (days, months...) with illustrator Sir John Tenniel to create the most perfect pictures imaginable for what were to become instant classics: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. When thinking about Alice and her dreamy surrealistic adventures down the rabbit hole and behind the looking-glass, who can help picturing the golden-haired girl in her lilac dress and striped stockings, gazing up at the Cheshire Cat or arguing with Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Tenniel's drawings remained black and white for over 40 years until 1911, when eight prints in each book were hand colored. Now, for the first time, every remaining illustration has been colored, making these the first editions to feature all of the original art in full color. Traditionalists need not worry: colorist Diz Wallis colored proofs taken from Tenniel's carefully preserved woodblocks, remaining faithful to his original drawings. The beautiful tones of these new hardcover editions look as natural as can be; they could just as easily be from the 19th century. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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Journey to Wonderland and through the Looking Glass with Alice. Meet the unforgettable characters of these two magical books, collected in one volume: the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and many others. Nothing is ordinary in the surprising worlds Alice finds herself in! Lewis Carroll's (1832-1898) popular books about Alice marked a turning point in children's literature--for the first time, children's stories were primarily for fun, rather than for instruction or moralizing.


Product details:

Item number (ASIN): 044805454X
Author: Lewis Carroll
Creator: John Tenniel, Illustrator
Edition: First Edition. first thus
ISBN: 044805454X
Manufacturer: Price Stern Sloan
Number Of Pages: 278
Package Dimensions: 70 x 500 x 740 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: June, 1970
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
Binding: Hardcover

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Rating: - New but defective needs to be made clear
The book was new, but defective. It looked like it was marked as defective by someone. A large black permanent marker was used to mark a line down the side of the book along the edges of the pages. I looked in the book to see what was wrong with it and a few of the pages were smeared but still legible. There should have been some indication that it was defective and what the defect was. I am assuming that new means new. New with a defect needs to be made clear. This is misleading.

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Rating: - Alice in Wonderland
My 10 year old grandaughter is the owner of Alice in Wonderland and so far she loves it. I sent it to her because I loved it so much when I was her age. She does spend time reading aloud to her little brother, so he loves it too. My son tells me he listens in to the reading quite often so it is a hit all around.

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Rating: - This Kindle edition is not worth it
This review is not about the book itself, but about the $0.99 Kindle edition. Considering this book is in the public domain, I would expect to get an active table of contents for an edition I have to pay for. That's not the case here, so watch out.

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Rating: - This is the world we live in
Alice represents at the very basis of our being in the world of insanity that we live in. And the author turns it into fun. This is a timeless story of the insanity of human life. Nothing makes sense. Everything is up-side-down. In our working world people do things which makes absolutely no sense. In our family life the same thing happens. This happens in all aspects of human life. My only solution seems to be, in this context, is 'be happy, have fun, figure out YOUR OWN LIFE' and mind your own business. Because, thankfully, in my belief, there is something Higher in Charge. Well, if this wasn't true, then how could we humans have lasted this long? :))) Diana

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Rating: - Soso
Alice's Adventure My first impressions of this book were that it was like reading C.S. Lewis on cheap drugs. The events are complete non sequiturs and the changes in plot are worse. It appears to be a spoiled child wandering in a world she does not understand, nor is willing to learn about - unlike Lucy in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe who seeks to understand the local customs and circumstances. The book is very easy to read but it leaves distaste in my literary mouth. I know it is considered a classic but I just do not see it, and if I did not have to read it for school I would not have bothered to finish it. (First written as Journal Reading Notes in 1999.) Through the Looking Glass Though this book is not much better than Alice's Adventures, the chess motif and theme does make the book much more interesting. With the bossy, dominant Red Queen and the quiet, kind, messy white queen, the book is a study in contrasts. The interweaving of the Nursery Rhyme Characters and the frequent fish poetry references does provide more continuity and a sense of sequential events than Alice's first adventure. I also appreciated the linking of the cat at the beginning and end of the story. It does still feel like Carroll did way too many opium pipes in his time. (First written as Journal Reading Notes in 1999.)

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