This is a very funny little book, a childrens book but everybody will enjoy it as I did. Its a very simple book to read but the way that Carroll explores logic through the book is both amusing and interesting. The book has been written by the "Mad Hatter" himself, wacky nonsense that will entertain any man, woman or child.
AUTHOR
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll was an English author, mathematician, logician, anglican and photographer. Best known for his writings of "Alices Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-glass" as well as his poems "The Hunting of the Shark" and "Jabberwocky".
BOOK INFORMATION
The story is basically about Alices journey down into a rabbit hole after following a white rabbit that she heard talking to itself. She faces many difficulties at the start adjusting to this underground society, and offends a good few characters (very amusing).
You can read the rest yourself. I dont want to ruin it for you!
Apart from being a childrens book of nonsense there are a great deal of references in the the book that are both not suitable for children and suitably hidden in the text. Such as "going down the rabbit hole" which in drug cultures is a metaphor for taking drugs. So not all just nonsense and child play.
PRICE GUIDE
Waterstones the Penguin Popular Classics book is £2 or you can alternately get this book and the sequel in one book for £4.95, not Penguin Classic.
Amazon has the Penguin Classic aswell at £2, also books with the two books in from £3.24
Foyles also has the two in one book for £4.55 and again the Penguin Popular Classics version.
Some Online and in-store prices will vary depending on the store.
I recommend this book to everyone. Its such a refreshing work of nonsense writing, I dont often read nonsense but reading this I have certainly missed out. If you havent read it yet, you are too.
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Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ... more
is, for most children, pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his a...
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