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Lewis Carroll's brilliantly timeless tales - in a deluxe 150th-anniversary editionOriginal, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy dream worlds of Wonderland and the Looking-Glass realm are full of the unexpected: A baby turns into a pig, time stands still at a "mad" tea-party, and a chaotic game of chess turns seven-year-old Alice into a queen. These unforgettable tales - filled with sparkling wordplay and unbridled imagination - balance joyous nonsense with poignant moments of longing for the lost innocence of childhood.For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.



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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was born on 27 January 1832. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and went on to become a mathematics lecturer there from 1855 to 1881. Lewis Carroll's most famous works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (published in 1865) and the sequel Alice Through the Looking-Glass, which contains the classic nonsense poem The Jabberwocky (published in 1872) .



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