Alice Box Set--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass (Books of Wonder)

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Lenny's description:
This boxed set contains both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there" (hardcover editions), with the original illustrations by John Tenniel.

Amazon.com Review:
That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages)

Seller's description:
This deluxe slipcased set of the two facsimile editions of Lewis Carroll's masterpieces, the first with prints taken directly from the original woodblocks, is the perfect gift for every Alice fan. A Books of Wonder® Classic.


Product details:

Item number (ASIN): 0688120504
Author: Lewis Carroll
Creator: John Tenniel, Illustrator
Format: Box set
ISBN: 0688120504
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Package Dimensions: 197 x 616 x 901 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: September 23, 1993
Publisher: HarperCollins
Reading Level: Baby-Preschool
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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