Don Quixote

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Publisher Place: Ware
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: Reprint

Description: 773 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses.

ISBN: 9781853260360