Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

About the book

Alice follows a white rabbit down a burrow and enters a subterranean world where physical laws and logic collapse. She encounters a hookah-smoking caterpillar, attends a repetitive tea party with a Mad Hatter, and navigates a deadly croquet match hosted by the Queen of Hearts. In the sequel, Alice steps through a mirror into a landscape organized like a giant chessboard. To reach the eighth square and become a queen, she interacts with nursery rhyme figures like Humpty Dumpty and the warring Tweedle brothers while navigating nonsensical linguistics.

This book is for readers who enjoy wordplay, mathematical puzzles, and surrealist fiction. It attracts those interested in how language functions and how social etiquette appears when stripped of its familiar context. Readers finish the stories with a better understanding of Victorian satire and the arbitrary nature of rules. The text provides a framework for looking at adults through a child’s perspective, where the behavior of those in power often lacks a rational basis or consistency.

Details

Published

1871

Language

EN