{"title":"Lewis Carroll","description":"Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, and mathematician. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with wordplay, logic, and fantasy.","products":[{"product_id":"alices-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass-paperback","title":"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll the \"muchness\" of Wonderland is captured in one book!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollow Alice down the rabbit hole to Wonderland and enjoy tea with the Mad Hatter, find your way with the Cheshire Cat, and play croquet with the Queen of Hearts. On the other side of the looking-glass, meet Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a host of other characters that share a different reality. Colorful sprayed edges, a heat-burnished cover with foil stamping, and lovely illustrations by Sir John Tenniel make this one of the most stylish volumes in the collectible Word Cloud Classics series.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101132853471,"sku":"9781667209586","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SxGSqH9xmA9781667209586.webp?v=1781068322"},{"product_id":"alices-adventures-in-wonderland-hardcover","title":"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal, experimental, and charmingly nonsensical, Lewis Carroll's \u003ci\u003eAlice'​s Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e follows seven-year-old Alice down a rabbit hole and into the topsy-turvy dream world of Wonderland. In this fantastical place, food can shrink you to the size of a mouse, or turn you into a giant, babies turn into pigs, and time stands still at the Mad Hatter's tea party. 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Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the \u003ci\u003eAlice \u003c\/i\u003ebooks--with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter \u003ci\u003eet al.--\u003c\/i\u003eby proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children's literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, \u003ci\u003eAlice \u003c\/i\u003eis no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing up--or down, or all turned round--as seen through the expert eyes of a child.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the \"Alice books--with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.--by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children's literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, \"Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about a trials and tribulations of growing up--or down, or all tumed round--as seen through the expert eyes of a child.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101607039199,"sku":"9780553213454","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/QzZQSFJvWHFZQnJIVFNiUWNuMDYrZz09.webp?v=1781071814"},{"product_id":"alice-in-wonderland-hardcover","title":"Alice in Wonderland - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. 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