Publishers Weekly, September 13th, 1991
In 1895, 30 years after publication of his masterpiece, Carroll explained that he didn't want to retrace the path to Alice, because it had become a "beaten highroad." Instead, he produced a two-volume tale of the eponymous fairy siblings, combined here under one cover. It is essentially a philosophical tract on morality, politics and religion, written in somewhat fussy Victorian prose and packed with puns, paradoxes, puzzles, poetry and Carroll's own brand of inspired nonsense. Carroll entwines two plots, set in two alternate worlds, one the fairytale kingdom of Elfland, the other a realm ca...
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