Lewis Carroll
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
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This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, a garden of talking flowers, and rude insects. Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass...
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Alicia era la niña más curiosa de Inglaterra. Le gustaban las adivinanzas, los gatos, las historias divertidas y los libros con dibujos.
Pero los que no tenían dibujos, no.
Y, como si lo hubiera hecho aposta, aquella tarde, su hermana, que era mayor que ella y creía que sabía muchas más cosas que Alicia, había decidido leer un libro gigante que estaba tan lleno de palabras que las letras tenían que encoger la barriga para no caerse de la página.
Pero...
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Master of gibberish Lewis Carroll brings his inventive style of writing to life once more in the collection "Jabberwocky and Other Poems." Though most famous for his creation of Wonderland and Alice's fall into the uncanny world of the nonsensical, Carroll used his wordsmithing ability to form inventive rhymes and lexicons in this collection. Words like "bandersnatch," "chortled," "tulgey," and even "Jabberwocky" are inventions of Carroll's mind....
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Alice s'ennuie et s'endort dans un fauteuil. Elle rêve qu'elle passe dans un autre monde, de l'autre cté du miroir du salon. Celui-ci est à la fois la campagne anglaise, un échiquier, et littéralement le monde à l'envers. Elle doit par exemple courir très vite pour rester sur place. Pour atteindre le jardin, elle doit d'abord s'en éloigner. De l'autre cté du miroir, notre héroïne croise des pièces d'échiquier et des personnages de la...
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Alicia está tomando las lecciones del día en un jardín, junto a su hermana. El libro, aburridísimo, y sin imágenes, hace que desvíe la mirada. Es en este momento en que, de la nada, aparece un pequeño Conejo Blanco que, como muchas personas, parece que tiene mucha prisa. La curiosidad de Alicia es demasiada y decide perseguir al Conejo Blanco, sin imaginarse, todas las aventuras que le esperarían. Y, como dice la duquesa, "Aquí hay una moraleja…"...
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Will you follow Alice down the rabbit hole? She shrinks, she grows and she gets into all sorts of mischief in Wonderland. After eating a peculiar cake Alice's adventures just begin. She meets many interesting characters along the way including the ever-late White Rabbit, the mellow Caterpillar, the grinning Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts. Will Alice make it out of Wonderland, head still intact?
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This omnibus edition contains eight of the most loved children's books of all time. Your child will treasure this magical book throughout their childhood. Included are 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', 'Black Beauty', 'The Wind in the Willows', 'The Adventures of Pinocchio', 'The Story of Doctor Dolittle', 'The Song of Hiawatha', 'Heidi', and 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. This book will keep children captivated for hours on end and provided them...
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This book contains the classic tale of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Here Lewis Carroll tells the story of a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a land of fantasy and dream-like nonsense. In this volume the famous story is decorated with Margaret W. Tarrant's wonderfully dainty and charming colour illustrations.
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This magnificent translation of Alice in Wonderland into French was supervised by Lewis Carroll himself. Remarkably fresh and original, it renders the English puns and parodies with French equivalents. A treat for students of French, it features no English text and all 42 of the original illustrations by John Tenniel.
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Lewis Carrolls novels Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, and playfully logical illogic epitomize the wit and whimsy of Carrolls writing. Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Other Classic Works collects both of the Alice novels, each featuring the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. In addition, this volume features...
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Ya fuera por una somnolencia excesiva durante la tarde anterior, o por las preocupaciones hostiles, o por insomnio puro, la realidad es que Charles L. Dodgson (o, como lo conoce la mayoría de la gente, Lewis Carroll) tenía problemas para conciliar el sueño. Y ante esta situación del tipo "entre la espada y la pared", decidió convertir sus noches de vigilia en noches de actividad creativa. Entre 1872 y 1890 pensó y resolvió los 72 Problemas...
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With satire, adventure, and imagination, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems explores subjects such as the supernatural, love, friendship, and nature. Featuring sixteen of Lewis Carroll's poems, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems has something to appeal to everyone. Among this collection is A Sea Dirge, in which the speaker, equipped with evocative figurative language, explains their contempt for the sea. In Echoes, a young girl discloses her encounter with...
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Alice climbs up on the fireplace mantel and pokes at the wall-hung mirror behind the fireplace and discovers, to her surprise, that she is able to step through it to an alternative world. In this reflected version of her own house, she finds a book with looking-glass poetry, Jabberwocky, and observes that the chess pieces have come to life.
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Alice s'ennuie et se plaint auprès de sa sœur, qui lit un livre sans images, ni dialogues. Elle se demande « À quoi bon un livre sans images, ni dialogues ? ». Juste à ce moment, un lapin blanc aux yeux roses vêtu d'une redingote avec une montre à gousset à y ranger surgit et passe près d'elle en courant. Cette vision ne l'étonne pas au premier abord, mais quand elle voit le lapin sortir une montre de sa poche et s'écrier : « Je suis...
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