{"product_id":"alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass-5","title":"Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass","description":"\u003cp\u003e6W Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by John Tenniel. London: J. M. Sent \u0026amp; Sons, 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);' data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-hveid=\"CAAIBBAA\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"Yjhzub\"\u003e\u003cspan data-subtree=\"aimfl\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eLewis Carroll’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"eujQNb\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/em\u003e and its brilliant sequel \u003cem class=\"eujQNb\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eThrough the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There\u003c\/em\u003e together form the ultimate twin masterpieces of literary nonsense, fundamentally shifting children's books from moralizing lessons to pure imaginative delight.\u003c\/span\u003e The narratives track a clever, logical seven-year-old girl named Alice as she first plunges down a rabbit hole into a chaotic subterranean world, and later steps through a parlor mirror into a winter wonderland structured entirely like a giant game of chess. Along her journeys, she navigates an iconic landscape of mad tea parties and upside-down logic, encountering an unforgettable cast of eccentric, hyper-literal figures including the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, Humpty Dumpty, and the volatile Queen of Hearts. The duology functions on a deeper level as a brilliant satire of rigid Victorian education, a complex exploration of mathematical and linguistic philosophy, and a poignant allegory for the inevitable loss of childhood innocence. This surreal mythos permanently established the modern \"portal fantasy\" genre, providing a lasting visual and linguistic vocabulary that continues to reshape literature, computer science, psychoanalysis, and global pop culture.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);' data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-hveid=\"CAAIBBAA\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);' data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-hveid=\"CAAIBhAA\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\"\u003eThe author, Lewis Carroll, was the lifelong pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a brilliant yet deeply introverted mathematician, logician, and ordained deacon at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson lived a structured academic life, publishing heavy treatises on geometry while harboring a private passion for photography and storytelling. The catalyst for his timeless fiction occurred on a golden July afternoon in 1862 during a rowing boat trip up the River Thames, where he invented the initial story to entertain Alice Liddell—the young daughter of the Dean of Christ Church—and her sisters. Urged by the children to write the story down, Dodgson painstakingly expanded the tale, adopting his famous pseudonym to publish the first volume in 1865. The monumental success of the book shattered the prevailing tradition of heavy-handed, moralistic children's literature, transforming a stuttering Oxford don into one of the most celebrated figures in global publishing history.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);' data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-hveid=\"CAAIBhAA\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);' data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-hveid=\"CAAIBhAA\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);' data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-hveid=\"CAAIBhAA\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 12px 0px 16px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);' data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-hveid=\"CAAIBhAA\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\"\u003eTan and red illustrated cloth boards with queen of hearts repeated in red. Blue lettering to upper board and spine. Matching endpapers to binding design. Bumping to points. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Fine condition overall.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Moons Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56529655070886,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0173\/6563\/1040\/files\/24D5AB48-5408-4F38-8B11-C4D0C14E90AF.jpg?v=1780334108","url":"https:\/\/moons-rare-books.myshopify.com\/products\/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass-5","provider":"Moons Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}