Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll ; authoritative texts of Alice's adventures in Wonderland, Through the looking-glass, The hunting of the snark, backgrounds, essays in criticism ; edited by Donald J. Gray.

Author: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

Edition Statement:2nd ed.

Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c1992.

Descriptionviii, 408 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Note:Sections include the texts of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass (including The Wasp in a Wig), and The Hunting of the Snark; plus Backgrounds (Early Life, The Alice Books, Later Life), and Essays in Criticism.

Note:Essays in criticism: Fairy tales with a purpose. Fairy tales for pleasure / Gillian Avery -- Escape / Peter Coveney -- Alice in wonderland: a curious child / Nina Auerbach -- Child as swain / William Empson -- Comedy from inside / Roger Henkle -- Comedy of regression. Play, nonsense, and games: comic diversion / Robert Polhemus -- Chess and theology in the Alice books / A.L. Taylor -- Balance of brillig / Elizabeth Sewell -- What is a boojum? Nonsense and modernism / Michael Holquist -- Blessed rage: Lewis Carroll and the modern quest for order / Donald Rackin.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-408) and index.

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