Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - Couverture souple

Canterbury Classics aims to bear its share in acquainting school children with literature suited to their years. The culture of the imagination is no less impor :tant than the culture of memory and the reasoning power. That ji childhood is poor which has not for friends many of the goodly company represented by Hector, A chilles, Roland, Sigurd, My Cid. Don Quixote, Lancelot, Robin Hood, Percy, the Douglas, Gulliver, Puck, Rip Van Winkle, and A lice in Wonderland. College class-rooms, where Dante and Spenser, Goethe and Coleridge are taught, speedily feel the difference between minds nourished, from babyhood up, on myths of Olympus and myths of A sgard, Hans Christian A ndersen, old ballads, the Pilgrim s Progress, the Arabian Nights, the A lhambra, and minds which are still strangers to fairyland and hero-land and all the dreamlands of the worlds inheritance. Minds of this latter description come almost as barbarians to the study of poetry, deaf to its music and blind to its visions. OT hey are in a foreign clime. In the larger college of life, no less, is felt the lack of an early initiation into literature. AV practical people in a practical age, we need the grace of fable -to balance our fact, the joy of poetry to lven our prose. x3 Something of the sort we are bound to have, and if familiarity in childhood with the classic tone has not armed us against ,the cheap, the flimsy, the corrupt in fiction, we fall easy victims to the trash of the hour. We become the sport of those mock- ing elves who give dry leaves for gold. This series must needs conform somewhat, in its choice of books, to the present demands of the schools.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (born January 27, 1832, died January 14, 1898), better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll. He was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there, which includes the poem Jabberwocky, and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. “Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there” is based on his meeting with another Alice, Alice Raikes. Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. Though not quite as popular as Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (born March 5, 1862, died January 15, 1924). He was an American artist and author.