Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters,Alice's Adventures in WonderlandandThrough the Looking-Glasshave delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. "The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of theAlicebooks," writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction, "lies in language. . . . It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children."

<b>A. S. Byatt</b> is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and reviewer. Her novels include the Booker Prize–winning <i>Possession</i>, which is available in a Modern Library clothbound edition, and the quartet <i>The Virgin in the Garden</i>, <i>Still Life</i>, <i>Babel Tower</i>, and, most recently, <i>A Whistling Woman</i>.