Lewis Carroll
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This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, a garden of talking flowers, and rude insects. Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass...
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Persiguiendo a un conejo blanco muy elegante, ataviado con gafas, chaleco y reloj, Alicia llega a una tierra misteriosa, habitada por seres extraordinarios y muy extranos. Ahi conoceremos al Dodo y su loca carrera donde todos ganan, a la Liebre de Marzo y al Sombrerero Loco celebrando una fiesta de No Cumpleanos, Al Gato de Cheshiere que aparece y desaparece a su antojo y a muchos otros entranables personajes que acompanan a Alicia en su recorrido...
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Game of Logic is a book written by Lewis Carroll.
Over 350 ingenious problems involving classical logic: logic is expressed in terms of symbols, syllogisms and the sorites are diagrammed, logic becomes a game played with two diagrams and a set of counters. Two books bound as one.
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
10) After Alice
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"When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice's disappearance? In this brilliant work of fiction, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings|and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll|s enduring...
11) Ever Alice
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"Alice's stories of Wonderland did more than raise a few eyebrows-it landed her in an asylum. Now at 15 years of age, she's willing to do anything to leave, which includes agreeing to an experimental procedure. When Alice decides at the last minute not to go through with it, she escapes with the White Rabbit to Wonderland and trades one mad house for another: the court of the Queen of Hearts. Only this time, she is under orders to take out the Queen....
15) Jabberwocky
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[2001]
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English
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After the death of his father, the young cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures involving a terrible monster called a 'Jabberwocky'. Action in the tradition of Monty Python.
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1999
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A varied collection of short stories which will keep the listener constantly amused, Nigel Hawthorne extracts every ounce of humour in an exemplary reading.
Stories included:
Brugglesmith by Rudyard Kipling
The Cricket Match from England, Their England by A.G. Macdonell
Reginald on House Parties by Saki
The Great Winglebury Duel by Charles Dickens
The Celebrated...