![]() ![]() Although Alice Liddell was born in 1852, twenty years later then Dodgson, she is kept in the two books as a little girl of seven years of age, the age she was when she Dodgson met her for the first time. The heroine of the two books is Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, where Dodgson taught mathematics. Much of this second story is based on the game of chess. This story is a winter's tale, which Carroll first published in December 1871. Many of the characters in the book belong to a pack of cards. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.”Īlice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a tale of summer which Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) published for the first time in July 1865. “Of course it must,” Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: “ my name means the shape I am-and a good handsome shape it is, too. “ Must a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully. “It’s a stupid name enough!” Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. “Don’t stand chattering to yourself like that,” Humpty Dumpty said, looking at her for the first time, “but tell me your name and your business.” Or if you are in North America, order the book from ! ISBN 978-1-90 (paperback), price: €12.95, £10.95, $15.95.Ĭlick on the book cover on the right to order this book from .uk! Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereįirst edition, 2009. ![]() Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There ![]()
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