John Tenniel Books

A reissue, with a new box design and new jackets, to mark the 125th anniversary of Macmillan's publication of "Wonderland".

Here are the nonsense classics and the unforgettable characters created by that witty, enigmatic mathematiCian who wrote under the name of Lewis Carroll. As well as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking- Glass and TheHunting ofthe Snark, this volume also contains a treasure-house of stories, poems, games and puzzles, many of which were originally devised for children and are still irresistible to adults. --back cover

I should see the garden far better,' said Alice to herself, if I could get to the top of that hill: and here's a path that leads straight to it--at least, no, it doesn't do that--' (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), but I suppose it will at last. But how curiously it twists! It's more like a corkscrew than a path! Well, THIS turn goes to the hill, I suppose--no, it doesn't!

This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, with illustrations by the author. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit are all now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are the delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody the Jabberwocky. Also included are some of Carroll's miscellaneous pieces of work, of which the best-known is perhaps the mock-heroic Hunting of the Snark which epitomises the author's enormous gift for nonsense verse. --back cover

After falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters.

Neu übersetzt und mit zahlreichen Illustrationen präsentiert sich Alices Abenteuer im Land hinter den Spiegeln. Diese Ausgabe von Nadine Erler lässt die englischen Eigennamen unverändert, was den Charme der Erzählung unterstreicht. Die skurrilen Figuren und Wortspiele Carrols sorgen für Absurdität und Vergnügen. Ein Klassiker der Nonsensliteratur.

Auch das Spiegelland steckt voller Wunder. Nach seiner großartigen Alice im Wunderland aus dem vorigen Jahr erscheint jetzt Benjamin Lacombes zweiter Alice-Band, ein ebenso prächtig ausgestatteter Band wie der erste. Mit Alice hat Benjamin Lacombe sein großes Thema gefunden. Sechs Jahre nach Alice in Wonderland, im Jahre 1871, veröffentlichte Lewis Carroll sein zweites Alice-Buch, Through the Looking Glass. Das Buch war von Beginn an ein Bestseller, und Gestalten aus ihm, wie Tweedledum & Tweedeldee (Dideldum und Dideldei), Humpty Dumpty (Plumpsti Bumsti) und die Weiße und die Schwarze Königin sind kanonische Gestalten der Weltliteratur geworden. Textgrundlage unseres Buchs ist die behutsam modernisierte klassische Übersetzung von Helene Scheu-Riesz aus dem Jahre 1923.