말이 필요없는 환상문학의 고전. 어느 날 시계를 보면서 바쁘게 뛰어가는 토끼를 따라간 앨리스. 이상한 나라에 도착한 앨리스는 담배 피우는 애벌레, 체셔 고양이, 난장판의 티 파티, 하트 여왕과의 크로켓 경기와 같은 놀랍고 신기한 일들과 만남을 겪게 되는데...『Alice's Adventures in Wonderland』와 『And, Through the Looking Glass』 두편이 함께 수록되어 있으며, John Tenniel의 일러스트 역시 이야기와 잘 어우러져 있는 책.

‘Contrariwise … if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic’

‘I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole … without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,’ wrote Charles Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one ‘golden afternoon’ in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a disordered tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles, paradoxes and riddles, are poignant moments of elegiac nostalgia for lost childhood. Startlingly original and experimental, the Alice books provide readers with a double window on both child and adult worlds.

This is the most comprehensively annotated edition available and includes the manuscript version of Alice’s Adventures Underground and Carroll’s essay ‘”Alice” on the Stage’ written for The Theatre in 1887.