Lewis Carroll
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Alicia en el País de las Maravillas, el clásico intemporal de Lewis Carroll, invita a los lectores a un viaje a través de las curiosas y fantásticas experiencias de una niña.
La aventura comienza cuando Alicia, aburrida de su entorno actual, sigue a un peculiar Conejo Blanco por una madriguera. Este simple acto la impulsa a un reino surrealista lleno de personajes excéntricos y escenarios disparatados. A medida que Alicia navega por el...
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The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is typically categorized as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking Glass (1871). The plot follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, an animal which may turn out to be...
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Lewis Carroll-Alice im Wunderland-Während ihre Schwester ihr aus einem Buch vorliest sieht die Titelheldin Alice ein sprechendes weißes Kaninchen das auf eine Uhr starrt und meint es komme zu spät. Neugierig folgt Alice ihm in seinen Bau. Dort fällt sie weit hinunter und landet in einem Raum mit vielen Türen. Nach einiger Zeit findet sie einen
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Master of gibberish Lewis Carroll brings his inventive style of writing to life once more in the collection "Jabberwocky and Other Poems." Though most famous for his creation of Wonderland and Alice's fall into the uncanny world of the nonsensical, Carroll used his wordsmithing ability to form inventive rhymes and lexicons in this collection. Words like "bandersnatch," "chortled," "tulgey," and even "Jabberwocky" are inventions of Carroll's mind....
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Las aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas se publicó originalmente en 1865. Nació de los relatos que Lewis Carroll improvisaba para tres amiguitas suyas, las hermanas Liddell, a una de las cuales está dedicado este libro. Con el paso de los años, Alicia se ha convertido en un libro clásico de la literatura universal, y aunque su autor lo escribió como una historia para niños, personas de todas las edades se lo han apropiado gracias...
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One day, a young girl named Alice suddenly spots a frantic White Rabbit, wearing a waistcoat and carrying a pocket watch. She follows the hurried creature down a hole into the magical world of Wonderland. While there, Alice meets more crazy creatures, including the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar, and the Cheshire Cat, and plays a twisted game of croquet with the Queen of Hearts. But when the Queen turns against her, this dream-like world quickly becomes...
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Alice s'ennuie et s'endort dans un fauteuil. Elle rêve qu'elle passe dans un autre monde, de l'autre cté du miroir du salon. Celui-ci est à la fois la campagne anglaise, un échiquier, et littéralement le monde à l'envers. Elle doit par exemple courir très vite pour rester sur place. Pour atteindre le jardin, elle doit d'abord s'en éloigner. De l'autre cté du miroir, notre héroïne croise des pièces d'échiquier et des personnages de la...
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This book of math and word games created by Lewis Carroll was intended for the amusement of children. It is a fine example of Lewis's apparent love and respect for developing the young intellect. The games are timeless and still highly relevant in today's high-tech world as they remain an invaluable tool for teaching children what is essentially the lost but vital art of self-entertainment.
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Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carroll's novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his masterpiece of nonsense verse "The Hunting of the Snark," and...
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Tumble down a rabbit hole into the extraordinary world of Lewis Carroll's childhood classics with these delightful BBC Radio readings.
This classic collection includes two of Alice's exciting adventures, brought to life by the incomparable Alan Bennett.
Alice in Wonderland
Young Alice leads an ordinary sort of life until, one day, she follows a rabbit down a hole and embarks on a series of adventures with some of the
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Alice debuted in Carroll's first draft of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Under Ground originated from stories told to the Liddell sisters during an afternoon on 4 July 1862 while rowing on the Isis with his friend Robinson Duckworth, and on subsequent rowing trips. At the request of ten-year-old Alice Liddell, Carroll wrote down the stories as Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which he completed in February 1864....
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Will you follow Alice down the rabbit hole? She shrinks, she grows and she gets into all sorts of mischief in Wonderland. After eating a peculiar cake Alice's adventures just begin. She meets many interesting characters along the way including the ever-late White Rabbit, the mellow Caterpillar, the grinning Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts. Will Alice make it out of Wonderland, head still intact?
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A fine exclusive edition of one of literature's most beloved stories with full page call-outs with quotes from summer.
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close to her.
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books...
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Each Bendon Junior Classic has been adapted and illustrated with care to introduce young readers (and the young at heart!) to a world of famous authors, characters, ideas, and stories that have been loved for generations. Collect all of our Adapted Junior Classics to build your young reader's library! Alice's adventures get "curiouser and curiouser" in Wonderland as she seems to be the only one who makes any sense in this wonderful tale of nonsense....
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Generations of children have fallen down the rabbit hole with the little girl in the pinafore, to return again and again to Wonderland. Translated into more than one hundred languages, this captivating fantasy has enchanted readers of all ages around the world. This new edition of Alice's adventures offers a fresh look at the time-honored tale, featuring an abundance of exuberant illustrations in the elegant style of Art Nouveau. Willy Pogány, a...
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Relato del inglés Lewis Carroll cuyo verdadero nombre era Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) publicado en 1865. Fruto de los cuentos que el autor improvisaba para tres niñas, una de ellas Alice Liddell de siete años. Como en el mito de Peter Pan, se basa en el anhelo y el temor a crecer. Se desarrolla según el ritmo de las canciones infantiles y plasma las fantasías y las pesadillas de la infancia. Esta obra maestra del nonsense (disparate)...
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Lewis Carroll the author of the world famous Alice in Wonderland is well known even today for his fiction, but his tenure as professor of mathematics at Oxford university is less well known as is his love of logic problems. Carroll was a mathematician at heart; he deeply loved and was fascinated by the subject. At first it may seem odd that a creator of such nonsensical writings would have such an interest in this area, although the logic involved...
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"Alice no país do espelho e o que ela encontrou por lá", publicado em 1871, é a continuação do célebre "Alice no país das maravilhas", de 1865. Nesta nova história, Alice tem de ultrapassar vários obstáculos – estruturados como etapas de um jogo de xadrez – para se tornar rainha. À medida que ela avança no tabuleiro, surgem outros tantos personagens instigantes e enigmáticos. Esta edição traz uma nova tradução do texto clássico...