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Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Through the Looking-Glass, (Paperback)

Name: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Through the Looking-Glass, (Paperback)
Brand: Lewis Carroll
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Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Through the Looking-Glass, (Paperback)Dover Thrift Editions Classic Novels Through the Looking Glass Paperback 9780486408781

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Publishers Weekly,Classics Illustrated comics returns with this dismal adaptation of Carroll's second Alice tale. Most of the charming paradoxes and silly puns are salvaged in gs the text, arranged in columns beneath the artwork rather than in word balloons. Consequently, a lot of very small illustrations are needed to carry the dialogue between Alice and the many looking-glass characters--to the detriment of the visual appeal of the work. g Baker ( Why I Hate Saturn ) is a good caricaturist, but the drawings often appear perfunctory and the color choicesg flat, garish and awkward. At its best (the Humpty Dumpty scenes), the g sketchy linework seems more appropriate to a realistic narrative, a thriller or a political satire, and the g book lacks throughout the careful design and rendering that a children's classic requires. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
Children's Books
Pub date
1999-05-14
Pages
128
Age range
11 - 99 Years

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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, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects.
Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass land into a chessboard, where Alice becomes a pawn in a bizarre game of chess involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, the White Knight, and other nursery-rhyme figures. Promised a crown when she reaches the eighth square, Alice perseveres through a surreal landscape of amusing characters that pelt her with riddles and humorous semantic quibbles and regale her with memorable poetry, including the oft-quoted "Jabberwocky."
This handsome, inexpensive edition, featuring the original John Tenniel illustrations, makes available to today's readers a classic of juvenile literature long cherished for its humor, whimsy, and incomparable fantasy.

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Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Non-Fiction

Genre

Children's Books

Pub date

1999-05-14

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