Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Résumé : 'Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.' So many readers in so short a space of time were to take the advice of the King of Hearts that by the end of the nineteenth century the double 'Alice' (1865 and 1872) had acquired a preeminent and unassailable position in children's literature. Lewis Carroll's use of logic, by which the ordinary is translated into the extraordinary in an entirely plausible way, combined with an exceptional knowledge and understanding of the mind of the child. Satire, allusion, and symbolism weave deeper and mysterious meanings which lend a measure of immortality to Carroll's remarkable fantasy.