Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. A fairy tale is not for children
The fairy tales of Lews Carroll, bright, lively, absurd and funny, have long surpassed many serious books in popularity – in England these fairy tales firmly occupy the third place in the reader's rating after the Bible and the works of Shakespeare. Carroll brilliantly showed the world of adults through the eyes of a child, so his fairy tales make us, according to Virginia Woolf, laugh artlessly – the way children laugh. In the same artless and cheerful spirit, Carroll shows many English customs and traditions that have always been interesting not only to the English, but to everyone who has heard of "good old England" – it is no coincidence that Chesterton called Carroll's fairy tales the "historical heritage" of this country. In the book you are holding in your hands, "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice through the Looking Glass" are supplemented with colorful illustrations telling about English customs, about the life of children and adults in the Victorian era; in addition, there is an illustrated story about Lews Carroll himself, as well as comments on his fairy tales by the famous literary critic Martin Gardner.
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