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A360 Media, LLC
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From curiosity to Immortal Masterpiece, the unbelievable tale behind Alice's creation. Meet the wonderfully ridiculous Wonderland crew, including the artist behind the enthralling illustrations of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Discover all things Wonderland in this 100 page ultimate fan guide!
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One of the English language's most popular and frequently quoted books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), a distinguished scholar and mathematician who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Intended for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the fantastic tale transformed children's literature, liberating it from didactic constraints. The story is deeply but gently satiric, enlivened...
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"Alice's second adventure takes her through the looking-glass to a place even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking-glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn't as easy as she expects: at every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on reciting poems. Some of these poems, such as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' and 'Jabberwocky', are as famous as the Alice stories themselves....
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A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. Alice has two adventures: first she follows a rabbit into a curious world where she meets the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts. In Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (written 1870; orig. U.S. pub. 1899; St. Martin, 1977; Knopf, 1986; Schocken, 1987; Morrow, 1993), she steps through a mirror into a backward world. Davy and the Goblin,...
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Alice falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. She has a series of adventures as she daringly follows the White Rabbit. She meets the grinning Cheshire Cat and has tea with the Mad Hatter. She avoids losing her head and then plays croquet using a flamingo as a mallet. Finally, the ugly duchess, the quarrelsome queen and the hookah-smoking caterpillar all make Alice's day one she will never forget.
