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

Beautiful book!! I love the cover, and the ribbon bookmark. I especially love the gold page edges!! It makes it look so much more beautiful and more expensive looking! You can’t beat a book like this for this price!! I actually bought this as a gift for someone, I’m also working on rebuilding my book collection so I may be ordering another one to keep!

Nice quality hard back book, I had never read this classic when I was younger, I was seeing a lot of cultural references to this story on the internet which piqued my curiosity, so, I decided to pick this up and read it. So far it has been an enjoyable read and I regret not having read it sooner. If you are looking to expand your literary library or just want to revisit this old classic this is an affordable option.

Well worth it for the Penguin Classics edition. The Notes section in the back gave lots of background about how the story began and specifics about certain events in the book relating to the author’s life and the people he knew.

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its companion novel, Through the Looking-Glass, form an enduringly strange and brilliant duology. These tales are far more than whimsical romps through fantastical lands — they are surrealist puzzles, philosophical playgrounds, and cultural mirrors that continue to enchant and perplex readers of all ages. Though often lumped together, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have distinct tones and structures. Both follow Alice, a sensible girl dropped into thoroughly nonsensical worlds: first through a rabbit hole into the chaotic dream-logic of Wonderland, then through a mirror into a more structured, chessboard-like realm. Wonderland is a tumbling disorder full of talking animals, shifting rules, and queens obsessed with beheadings, while Looking-Glass is more of a surreal thought experiment, populated by living poetry, mirrored rules, and unsettling nursery rhyme characters. If the first is all riddles and reversals, the second feels like an upward climb toward queenship, meaning, and a strange kind of self-awareness. Both show worlds run by folks who absolutely should not be running the world. Through it all, Alice is as polite as she can be. Carroll’s characters are unforgettable weirdos who’ve pitched tents in the collective unconscious. From the fretful White Rabbit and the cryptic Cheshire Cat to the haughty Red Queen and the delightfully befuddled Tweedledee and Tweedledum, each figure feels both iconic and symbolic. Some represent the adult world’s hypocrisy, others embody logical paradoxes or childhood anxieties. Their nonsensical dialogue is often razor-sharp satire disguised as silliness. They are real in that sideways way. They’re not metaphors, they are archetypes of dysfunction. And Alice, when she doesn’t outright defeat them, walks away. Though often labeled children’s stories, these books are subversive and complex. Carroll’s background as a mathematician shines through in his love of paradox and his relentless wordplay as the engine of the narrative. Logic, grammar, and social norms are constantly upended. Alice isn’t just navigating strange places; she’s navigating meaning itself. The poems, puns, and riddles twist language until it starts to resemble something closer to truth — or at least, a more honest kind of nonsense. Carroll games the English language like an old pinball machine and never tilts. And it works because Carroll seems to understand better than most that language is a power tool. Or a tool of power. Either way, people in power often speak the most nonsense with the greatest confidence. Alice is a triumphant protagonist: curious, skeptical, occasionally indignant, and deeply grounded in a child’s sense of fairness and reason. She’s not a wide-eyed innocent but a sharp observer who meets absurdity with exasperation rather than awe, making her the voice of reason in a world that gleefully resists it. Neither helpless nor perfect, she holds her own against the madness. In doing so, she becomes the grounding force that allows the books to spiral, twist, and tumble without losing their center. Alice is just trying to make sense of it all, get to where she thinks she should go, and make some friends along the way without getting her head bitten (or chopped) off. Aren’t we all? These books endure because they resist a single interpretation. They can be read as nonsense or satire, fantasy or dreamscape, children’s story or commentary on Victorian society — or all of these at once. Carroll invites readers into a world where nothing is fixed, and that openness keeps Alice fresh with each reread. Together, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are strange, clever, disorienting, and absolutely iconic for reasons that are both obvious and, frankly, impossible to explain. They remind us that logic can be silly, that childhood contains profound insight, and that language itself is a kind of magic. If you’re willing to wander, they’ll take you somewhere worth going.

First rate, from the binding, the font size, (for these old eyes), and the EXCELLENT illustrations by John Tenniel...You never get too old for this these wonderful stories (that seem to speak to me all of my life).....Best copy of this old friend that I have seen...

Beautiful book that holds special meaning in our family- had a problem with first order damaged and they made it easy/quick to replace!

Bought as a gift. Arrived as described.

This review is for the Penguin Classics paperback edition. I feel this is the best edition of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass available. Tenniel's pictures are reproduced perfectly and it includes Alice's adventures underground and notes for the reader to explain certain things. Great for any Alice fan.

What is there to day it's a classic must read.

Joli petit livre avec de belles illustrations !

Ottima edizione di wonderland+looking glass con: -testo in lingua originale unabridged -illustrazioni originali di Tenniel a colori -copertina rigida clothbound -pagine spesse, senza trasparenza Formato tascabile. Lo stile della copertina e la finitura dorata delle pagine (presenti in tutta la collana Macmillan Collector's Library), a mio gusto, sono perfette per i due racconti di Alice.

Que livro é esse?!!! Meu deus, muito lindo. Ele é pequeno (de bolso) mas eu achei ótimo, pois da pra levar na bolsa. Capa de tecido, detalhada, borda dourada LINDA! as ilustrações são muito caricatas, eu amei demais. Uma leitura gostosa, que costumo fazer as vezes. Obs: Comprei ele há uns anos, por isso está surradinho.

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