Alice in Wonderland

This Norton Critical Edition reprints the 1897 editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and the 1876 edition of The Hunting of the Snark.
New to the Second Edition is "The Wasp in a Wig," a recently discovered episode Carroll deleted from Through the Looking-Glass, but which fits into the story in interesting ways. Each text is accompanied by ample explanatory notes.
"Backgrounds" reprints new selections from recent biographies of Carroll and from recent editions of his diaries and letters.
Our understanding of and appreciation for Carroll’s life and literature are deepened by new contributions from Anne Clark, Tony Beale, E. M. Rowell, and, most revealingly, Carroll himself.
"Criticism" retains seven seminal critiques from the First Edition while adding four important recent essays by Nina Auerbach, Roger Henkle, Robert Polhemus, and Donald Rackin.
A revised and updated Selected Bibliography is also included.

　　Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)，English logician, mathematician, and novelist, best-known for his classic fantasy novels ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865) and its sequel THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE (1871).
　　Carroll used the surrealistic settings of his fantasy world to question the commonly accepted ways of thinking. Unlike other children's books of the time, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland did not try to teach a moral message. Carroll also wrote poetry which have remained open to all explanations of meaning.

　　Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most celebrated children's books of all time. Since its publication in 1865 most editions of the beloved tale have featured the work of a single artist. Chronicle Books is proud to present this Classic Illustrated Edition with a unique vision: Lewis Carroll's original story of little Alice's tumble down a rabbit hole is brought to life by a wondrous collection of vintage illustrations gathered from the late 19th & early 20th century editions of the book. This oversize edition of the complete text of Carroll's classic contains examples of illustrations from 29 artists.

Preface
Texts
　Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland
　Through the Looking-Glass
　　The Wasp in a Wig
　The Hunting of the Snark
Backgrounds
　EARLY LIFE
　　Derek Hudson, [Parents and Childhood]
　　Anne Clark, [School]
　　Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, [Oxford]
　　Lewis Carroll, From the Letters [1855]
　　　From the Diaries [1855–56]
　　　Early Poems
　　　　She’s All My Fancy Painted Him
　　　　Solitude
　　　　Upon the Lonely Moor
　　Derek Hudson, [Ordination
　THE ALICE BOOKS
　　Derek Hudson, [Child Friends]
　　Lewis Carroll, From the Diaries [1856–63]
　　　From Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
　　Alice and Caryl Hargreaves, Alice’s Recollections of Carrollian Days
　　Lewis Carroll, From the Diaries [1863–65]
　　　From Alice on the Stage
　LATER LIFE
　　Helmut Gernsheim, Lewis Carroll-Photographer
　　Lewis Carroll, Letters to Children
　　　From the Diaries [1868–71]
　　　Letter to Mrs. A.L. Mayhew
　　Tony Beale, C.L. Dodgson: Mathematician
　　Derek Hudson, [Rooms at Christ Church]
　　Anne Clark, [Friendships with Women]
　　E.M. Rowell, [To Me He Was Mr. Dodgson]
　　Isa Bowman, [A Visit to Christ Church]
　　Lewis Carroll, From the Diaries [1879–85]
　　Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, [An Old Bachelor]
Essays in Criticism
　Gillian Avery, Fairy Tales with a Purpose
　　Fairy Tales for Pleasur
　Peter Coveney, Escape
　Nina Auerbach, Alice in Wonderland: A Curious Child
　William Empson, The Child as Swain
　Roger Henkle, Comedy from Inside
　Robert Polhemus, The Comedy of Regression
　　Play, Nonsense, and Games: Comic Diversion
　A.L. Taylor, [Chess and Theology in the Alice Books]
　Elizabeth Sewell, The Balance of Brillig
　Michael Holquist, What Is a Boojum? Nonsense and Modernism
　Donald Rackin, Blessed Rage: Lewis Carroll and the Modern Quest for Order
Selected Biblioraphy

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--"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see."
--"I don't see," said the Caterpillar.
--"I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly," Alice replied very politely, "for I can't understand it myself top begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing."
--"It isn't," said the Caterpillar.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(from Alice in Wonderland)