This selection of Carroll's works includes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel, "Through the Looking Glass" , both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tennie. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appearing to young readers today as ever they were.
Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraodinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carrol engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses