Alice in Wonderland (eBook)

Lewis Carroll (Autor)

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2024
200 Seiten
Seven Books (Verlag)
9783988655851 (ISBN)

Infos

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.

Autor

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2024
• Verlagsort: Vachendorf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Erstlesealter / Vorschulalter
• Schlagworte: Alice in Wonderland • american classics • Children books • children classics • Lewis Carroll
• ISBN-13: 9783988655851 / 9783988655851