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Go down the rabbit hole with Alice in this brand-new edition of Lewis Carroll's classic stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Produced in association with the UK's National Gallery, this handsome new hardback edition's dustjacket features artwork from the gallery's collection and includes expert notes on the art. The image is A Girl with a Kitten, probably by Jean-Baptiste Perroneau – an idealised portrait of a young girl with her pet which evokes Alice and her cat Dinah.Featuring the full original text of both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, this striking edition is the ideal gift for anyone who loves the characters, wit and sublime silliness of Alice's adventures.This volume is part of the new Masterpiece Classics series from Welbeck, which includes The Jungle Books.

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Featuring the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, this beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf. On a warm summer afternoon, inquisitive young Alice tumbles down a rabbit-hole into Wonderland. In this strange, unforgettable world, Alice meets the anxious White Rabbit and the grinning Cheshire cat, joins a mad tea-party with the Hatter and the March Hare, plays croquet with the frightening Queen of Hearts and encounters many other iconic characters that have captured the imagination of children for generations. Lewis Carroll’s surreal tale has become one of the most famous, influential and beloved books ever written, delighting readers young and old for over 150 years. Complete your library with HarperCollins Children’s Classics.

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Alice's second adventure takes her through the looking-glass to a place even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking-glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn't as easy as she expects: at every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on reciting poems. Some of these poems, such as 'The Walrus and The Carpenter' and 'Jabberwocky', are as famous as the Alice stories themselves.Macmillan was the original publisher of Alice in 1865 and is proud to remain true to the vision of its creators. Every bit as iconic are Sir John Tenniel's remarkable black line illustrations, perfectly capturing the combination of the ordinary and the extraordinary at the heart of Wonderland.This beautiful, celebratory, edition of Through the Looking-Glass has a gorgeous cover with a shiny silver foiled looking-glass, and is packed full of fun bonus material, including a quiz, wordsearch and a glossary. Lewis Carroll's classic children's book is brought to life like never before!

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”’ So begins the tale of Alice, who follows a curious White Rabbit down a hole and falls into Wonderland, a fantastical place where nothing is quite as it seems: animals talk, nonsensical characters confuse, Mad Hatters throw tea parties and the Queen plays croquet. Alice’s attempts to find her way home become increasingly bizarre, infuriating and amazing in turn. A beloved classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has continued to delight readers, young and old, for over 150 years.

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll'"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!"''I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disorderly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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Since childhood, Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her see spots, which means she sees the world in a surreal, almost hallucinogenic way that sits very well with the Wonderland of Alice. She is fascinated by childhood and the way adults have the ability, at their most creative, to see things the way children do, a central concern of the Alice books.The classic book is colour illustrated with a clothbound jacket, and produced to very high specification. Kusama's images are interspersed throughout the text.Produced in collaboration with the Kusama Studio, Tokyo and Gagosian Gallery.

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With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.

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First published by Macmillan in 1907, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Little Folks Edition is a charming miniature edition of Lewis Carroll's classic tale which is specially abridged for younger readers. A sixth of the length of the original 1865 edition, it features 32 brightly coloured illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, uniquely featuring Alice in a red dress.Faithfully reproduced from a rare archive copy, this unique little book retains all the charm of the historic original. With luxurious red Wibalin binding and gold sprayed edges, it is the perfect celebration of Alice's special anniversary; a wonderful gift for fans of every age and a must-have for every collector's bookshelf.

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Es el 25 de agosto de 1877, y en el seno de la familia Burton se recibe con sorpresa una carta a nombre de la hija pequeña, Mabel Amy Burton. Está firmada por un tal C. L. Dodgson, que afirma ser el autor de un librito titulado Alicia en el país de las maravillas, que desea regalarle a Mabel. Cuando la señora Harriet Burton, entre desconcertada y emocionada por ese singular y eminente personaje, da su autorización, se inicia una correspondencia entre sus dos hijas y ese extraño gentleman, como lo describiría la pequeña Mabel, de ocho años, tras su primer encuentro con él durante un paseo por la playa. Estas cartas, acompañadas del texto de Carroll Ocho o nueve palabras sabias sobre la escritura de cartas, y de facsímiles y fotografías inéditas, conforman los restos de una de las relaciones más duraderas y estudiadas del famoso creador de Alicia y fotógrafo de niñas.

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Este fascinante poema nos sumerge de nuevo en el fantástico mundo de Lewis Carroll, vislumbrado en el poema Jabberwocky de Alicia a través del espejo. Narra con humor infinito el viaje imposible de una tripulación improbable para hallar a una criatura inconcebible. Fue publicado por primera vez en 1876, y ahora, por fin, presentamos en castellano la edición con las ingeniosas ilustraciones, casi oníricas, de la reconocida artista finlandesa Tove Jansson, conocida por ser la creadora de los Moomins, una divertida familia de troles escandinavos.

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Una generación de lectores tras otra ha entrado en la madriguera del conejo, divertidos, perplejos y asustados, junto a Alicia, la pequeña protagonista de esta gran obra de la literatura universal. Las versiones de Alicia en el País de las Maravillas y A través del espejo y lo que Alicia encontró allí, concebidas e ilustradas por el artista norteamericano Peter Kuper, de la mano de la renovada traducción de Andrés y Teresa Barba, han logrado instalarse como una de las ediciones de referencia de nuestro idioma. Publicadas originalmente en dos tomos, presentamos a nuestros lectores una edición que reúne ambos volúmenes en un juego de espejo que recupera el espíritu lúdico a irreverente de ese genio de la literatura que fue Lewis Carroll.

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Certain to please even Alice herself, this celebrated version of her famous adventures in Wonderland is brimming with wonderfully whimsical pictures by internationally acclaimed artist Lisbeth Zwerger. Her imaginative illustrations of the strange denizens of Wonderland – from the Mad Hatter and March Hare to the Queen of Hearts and Cheshire Cat - capture the inspired nonsense of Carroll’s timeless tale.

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Curiouser and curiouser!'After a young girl named Alice takes a tumble down a rabbit hole, she finds a magical and nonsensical place called Wonderland.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’  When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a magical tunnel, her world is changed forever.   In Wonderland, a place where nothing is quite as it seems, Alice meets the Cheshire Cat, who can disappear at will; the Mad Hatter, who has a fondness for riddles; and the terrifying Queen of Hearts, who enjoys nothing more than chopping off people’s heads.  Introducing some of the most iconic characters in literature, mad tea parties and games of flamingo croquet, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have captured the hearts and imaginations of readers for over 150 years. 

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Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems have been astonishingly popular with children and adults alike since the first publication of Alice in Wonderland in 1865, and have influenced the work of a host of modern writers, including James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borgese and Vladimir Nabokov. This selection of Carroll's verse serves as an introduction to his work. It includes the best-known Alice poems as well as "Sylvie and Bruno", "The Hunting of the Snark" and pieces from Phantasmagoria. The text is illustrated with a number of the evocative original Tenniel drawings.

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Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio.There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, ''Who are you?'' What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter''s tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts...CEFR A2/B1Word count 6,315

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Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world’s greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Alice in Wonderland, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will and going to, present continuous for future meaning, and comparatives and superlatives. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.Alice goes after a white rabbit into Wonderland. There she meets the Mad Hatter, the Duchess and many other famous people and animals in Lewis Carroll's famous story.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

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CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF ALICEOh my ears and whiskers, how late its getting!Would you be surprised to see a white rabbit take a watch out of his waistcoat pocket? It certainly seems a remarkable sight to Alice and, full of curiosity, she follows him down a rabbit-hole into a very strange world. She meets a disappearing cat, plays croquet with a bad-tempered Queen, joins a mad Hatter's tea party and becomes entangled in the case of some missing tarts. In Wonderland nothing but out-of-the-way things happen...Includes Through the Looking Glass.BACKSTORY: Learn about the author and what inspired him to create Wonderland, and try writing some nonsense verse!

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This exquisite hardback edition presents Lewis Carroll''s classic children''s tale, Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland, featuring classic full-colour illustrations and stencilled page edges. Follow Alice down the rabbit hole in this enchanting work by Lewis Carrol, featuring a cast of unforgettable characters - from the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat, to Humpty Dumpty and the Queen of Hearts. This edition features Alice''s first adventure in Wonderland, as well as the additional tales Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. This collectors edition features Sir John Tenniel''s classic illustrations, colourised by Katy Jackson, as well as two letters written by Lewis Carrol to his young readers: ''An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves Alice'' and ''A Christmas Greeting from A Fairy to a Child''. With stencilled page edges, beautiful endpapers and ivory pages, this deluxe hardback makes a wonderful for

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Este hermoso libro está lleno de imágenes para colorear. Todos los personajes se hallan presentes: el Conejo Blanco, el Sombrerero, el gato de Cheshire y, por supuesto, Alicia. Con un poco de imaginación, este libro aportará horas y horas de diversión mientras se colorea el País de las Maravillas. Y de qué sirve un libro sin dibujos ni diálogos?,se preguntaba Alicia. Este hermoso e inspirador libro, que se basa en los dibujos originales de John Tenniel para Las aventuras de Alicia en el País de las Maravillas, ofrece una divertida forma para relajarse al permitir dar rienda suelta a la creatividad y colorear el País de las Maravillas. Las icónicas ilustraciones de este libro, que se complementan con márgenes decorativos y se acompañan de citas del texto original de Lewis Carroll, invitan a jugar y a imaginar conforme se exploran escenas de la obra clásica y se colorean con la gama cromática que uno decida.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Pequeña Biblioteca GadirDescripción: 70 p. 18x11 cmEste volumen contiene dos textos de Lewis Carroll desconocidos para el público lector en español, dos aproximaciones inusuales al genial autor de Alicia. El primero "Alimentar la mente", es una conferencia que dictó Carroll sobre la lectura y sus bondades, en clave de humor y genial por momentos. El segundo texto, "Ocho o nueve palabras sabias sobre escritura epistolar", es un texto amable, curioso, delirante y también lleno de humor. En él Carroll describe sus singulares prácticas a la hora de redactar y clasificar su correspondencia. Muchos de sus consejos, en esta época en que la escritura por carta parece extinguirse, siguen siendo útiles, pues lo son para las relaciones personales, y por qué no? para la escritura de correo electrónico. Pero sobre todo, el lector pasará a lo largo del texto de la sonrisa a la carcajada. Esta edición contiene las ilustraciones en color que acompañaron a l

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Lewis Carroll está considerado como el mayor escritor de Literatura Infantil del mundo y su obra ha sido unánimemente aclamada por la crítica literaria y el público durante un siglo y medio. El famoso autor de Alicia en el País de las Maravillas era también un consumado poeta. Su obra poética se extiende desde la infancia hasta el final de sus días, y comprende poemas satíricos, acrósticos, adivinanzas, juegos de lógica y poesía para adultos. Esta última, de una excepcional belleza, reflexiona de manera profunda y clarividente sobre el paso del tiempo, la nostalgia, el amor perdido y las heridas de la existencia. Raquel Lanseros ha seleccionado y traducido para Valparaíso Ediciones los poemas más emblemáticos de cada uno de sus estilos y épocas. El resultado es este libro imprescindible para los amantes de la mejor poesía.

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Escrito seis años después de "Alicia en el País de las Maravillas" y contando con la misma protagonista, "A través del espejo y lo que Alicia encontró al otro lado" ?relato planteado como una partida de ajedrez en la que Alicia, de peón, se convierte en reina?, lleva hasta sus últimas posibilidades los juegos de palabras, las parodias cultas y los recursos literarios que Lewis Carroll utilizara ya en su antecesora. Velada en ocasiones por la mayor popularidad de su antecesora, A través del espejo no sólo no desmerece en absoluto de ella, sino que cuenta entre sus personajes con algunos de los más citados y conocidos de este peculiar universo, como Tararí y Tarará (Tweedledee y Tweedledum) o el oviforme Zanco Panco (Humpty Dumpty).

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