Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass

Although originally written to amuse his young neighbor Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's incomparable tales, about a seven-year-old Victorian girl who journeys to worlds populated by some of the oddest beings ever imagined, have also always intrigued older, more sophisticated readers. Here Hugh Haughton's Introduction chronicles Carroll's lifelong fascination with preadolescent girls. 98 drawings.