Vintage Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
 
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll were initially written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of his (Carroll's) college. The books brought him great fame and notoriety. Through the Looking Glass is the sequel to Wonderland and is set six months later than the earlier book.
The book Alice in Wonderland failed to be named in an 1888 poll of the publishing season's most popular children's stories. However, many newspapers at the time declared the novel "exquisitely wild, fantastic, [and] impossible." Towards the end of the 19th century, Sir Walter Besant wrote that Alice in Wonderland "was a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete."
In 2014, Robert McCrum named the tale "one of the best-loved in the English canon" and called it "perhaps the greatest, possibly most influential, and certainly the most world-famous Victorian English fiction." A 2020 review in Time states: "The book changed young people's literature. It helped to replace stiff Victorian didacticism with a looser, sillier, nonsense style that reverberated through the works of language-loving 20th-century authors as different as James Joyce, Douglas Adams, and Dr. Seuss."
Through the Looking-Glass is a novel by Lewis Carroll, published on December 27, 1871. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There, she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (for example, running helps one remain stationary, walking away from something brings one towards it, chessmen are alive, nursery rhyme characters exist, and so on).
Through the Looking-Glass includes verses such as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter," as well as the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The mirror above the fireplace displayed at Hetton Lawn in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire (a house owned by Alice Liddell's grandparents and was regularly visited by Alice and Lewis Carroll) resembles the one drawn by John Tenniel and is cited as a possible inspiration for Carroll.
It was the first of the "Alice" stories to gain widespread popularity and prompted a newfound appreciation for its predecessor when it was published.

Measures: 8.25 x 5.75
Clothbound w/ minimal wear on edges and corners, the cream background is yellowing and shows handling ( please view photos), the spine is tight, and the pages and illustrations are yellowed but in excellent condition.

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