{"product_id":"9780553213454","title":"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland \u0026 Through the Looking-Glass","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eCarroll, Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBantam Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5\/1\/1984\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eMass-market Paperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eIn 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created  a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole.  Thus began the immortal  adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Countless  scholars have tried to define the charm of the \u003ci\u003eAlice \u003c\/i\u003ebooks—with those wonderfully  eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire  Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter \u003ci\u003eet al.—\u003c\/i\u003eby proclaiming that they really comprise  a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children’s literature,  even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Perhaps, as Dodgson might  have said, \u003ci\u003eAlice \u003c\/i\u003eis no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations  of growing up—or down, or all turned round—as seen through the expert eyes of a child.","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43352344166655,"sku":"9780553213454","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780553213454_s600x595.jpg?v=1777913179","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780553213454","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}