With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses.
CARROLL LEWIS
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Dodgson Daresbury, Cheshire, 27 de enero de 1832 ? Guildford, Surrey, 14 de enero de 1898 fue sacerdote anglicano, matemático, fotógrafo y escritor británico. Pero lo conocemos como Lewis Carrol.l Difícilmente se encuentran escritores con una vida tan completa y compleja como la del inglés. Pero, claro, sólo con un mundo interior tan rico como el de este inglés de familia acomodada, se puede crear una obra maestra como es Aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas y A través del espejo.
