When Alice tum­bles down, down, down a rabbit-​hole one hot summer’s after­noon in pur­suit of a White Rab­bit, she finds her­self in Won­der­land. And here begin the fan­tas­ti­cal adven­tures that will see her expe­ri­enc­ing extra­or­di­nary changes in size, swim­ming in a pool of her own tears and attend­ing the very mad­dest of tea par­ties. For Won­der­land is no ordi­nary place and the char­ac­ters that pop­u­late it are quite unlike any­body young Alice has ever met before. In this imag­i­nary land she encoun­ters the sav­agely vio­lent Queen, the lachry­mose Mock Tur­tle, the laconic Cheshire Cat and the hookah-​smoking cater­pil­lar, each as sur­pris­ing and out­landish as the next. Through the Looking-​Glass con­tin­ues Alice’s bizarre adven­tures, in which she meets more out­landish cre­ations, includ­ing the Red Queen, the White Queen, Twee­dle­dum and Twee­dledee, Humpty Dumpty and the White Knight.

The book includes a sec­tion in colour, and con­tains use­ful essays from notable schol­ars on dif­fer­ent aspects of the novel: Mor­ton N. Cohen on Lewis Car­roll: a para­dox; Will Brooker on the fur­ther adven­tures of Alice; Hugues Lebailly on the child-​friends con­tro­versy and Rose Lovell-​Smith on intro­duc­ing the Ani­mal char­ac­ters of Wonderland.

• the com­plete text in a mod­ern, read­able typeface
• sec­tion on the Ten­niel colour illustrations
• Charles Dodg­son timeline
• map of Charles Dodgson’s Oxford
• styl­ish embossed red cloth cover with a coloured paper panel