Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics)

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   森の中でお茶会を開く帽子屋マッド・ハンター、やたらと首切りしたがる公爵夫人、顔や手足は動物なのに甲羅があるニセ亀、ハートの女王、チェシャ猫…。本書には、風変わりであっと驚くようなキャラクターが次から次へと登場する。これぞ、究極のナンセンスを知る達人ルイス・キャロルの真骨頂だ。

   本書は、『Alice's Adventures in Wonderland』（邦題『不思議の国のアリス』）と『Through the Looking Glass』（邦題『鏡の国のアリス』）の2大傑作を収録した保存版。どちらも、いつの世も斬新な魅力を放ち読者の想像力をかきたてる、あまりにも有名で奇想天外な小説だ。

   最新技術で鮮やかによみがえった、ジョン・テニエルによるオリジナル版の美しい線画も楽しめる1冊。

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The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat-characters each more eccentric than the last, and that could only have come from Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense. In these two brilliant burlesques he created two of the most famous and fantastic novels of all time that not only stirred our imagination but revolutionized literature.

Amazon.com Review

That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages)