The Penguin English Library Edition of Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll`”Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). ”Now I`m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!”`I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,` wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one `golden afternoon` in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disorderly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.