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内容简介

　　The two Alice books--Lewis Carroll's masterpieces--are ranked by many as peers of the great adult works of English literature. And despite their riches of andquot; untranslatableandquot; puns, nonsense, and parody, they have been happily translated around the world. The matchless original illustrations by Tenniel share with Carroll's text the glory of making Alice immortal.

作者简介

　　Christopher Hart is the acclaimed author of countless illustration tutorials, including two of the best-selling art books in the US-Manga Mania and Anime Mania. He has sold more than one million books worldwide and makes his home in Connecticut.

目　　录

Autobor's Note
Down the Rabbit-Hole
TWO The Pool of Tears
THREE A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
FOUR The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
FIVE Advice from a Caterpillar
SIX Pig and Pepper
SEVEN A Mad Tea-Party
EIGHT The Queen's Croquet Ground
NINE The Mock Turtle's Story
TEN The Lobster Quadrille
ELEVEN Who Stole the Tarts?
TWELVE Alice's Evidence

媒体评论

　　"A book of wonder and nonsense laced with lethal wit."
　　　　　　--Guardian
　　"Precise, dream-like, subversive."
　　　　　　--Independent on Sunday--From the Paperback edition.

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　　Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glassand What Alice Found There pursue what lies beyond and down rabbitholes and on reverse sides of mirrors. But mainly their subject iswhat comes after, and in this sense the books are allegories aboutwhat a child can know and come to know. This quest, as in manygreat works of literature, unwinds against a larger backdrop: whatcan and what cannot be known at a particular historical moment, amoment that in Lewis Carroll's case preceded both Freud'sspeculations on the unconscious and Heisenberg's formulation of theuncertainty principle. Yet because the books were written by ateacher of mathematics who was also a reverend, they are alsoconcerned with what can and cannot be taught to a child who has aninfinite faith in the goodness and good sense of the world. ButAlice's quest for knowledge, her desire to become something (agrown-up) she is not, is inverted. The books are not conventionalquest romances in which Alice matures, overcomes obstacles, andeventually gains wisdom. For when Alice arrives in Wonderland, sheis already the most reasonable creature there. She is wiser thanany lesson books are able to teach her to be. More important, sheis eminently more reasonable than her own feelings will allow herto express. What comes after for Alice? Near the end of Through theLooking Glass, the White Queen tells Alice, "Something's going tohappen!"
　　Quests for mastery are continually frustrated in the Alice books.In comparison with the ever—sane Alice, it is the variousWonderland creatures who appear to be ridiculous, coiners ofabstract word games. Yet Carroll also frustrates, with equalprecision, Alice's more reasonable human desires. Why, after all,cannot Alice know why the Mad Hatter is mad? Or why will Alicenever get to 20 in her multiplication tables? In Carroll, the logicof mathematical proofs runs counter to the logic of reasonablehuman desire—and neither logic is easily mastered. To his radicalepistemological doubt, Carroll added a healthy dose of skepticismfor the conventional children's story—a story that in his day camepackaged with a moral aim and treated the child as an innocent ortabula rasa upon which the morals and knowledge of the adult couldbe tidily imprinted.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
and What Alice Found There pursue what lies beyond and down rabbit
holes and on reverse sides of mirrors. But mainly their subject is
what comes after, and in this sense the books are allegories about
what a child can know and come to know. This quest, as in many
great works of literature, unwinds against a larger backdrop: what
can and what cannot be known at a particular historical moment, a
moment that in Lewis Carroll's case preceded both Freud's
speculations on the unconscious and Heisenberg's formulation of the
uncertainty principle. Yet because the books were written by a
teacher of mathematics who was also a reverend, they are also
concerned with what can and cannot be taught to a child who has an
infinite faith in the goodness and good sense of the world. But
Alice's quest for knowledge, her desire to become something (a
grown-up) she is not, is inverted. The books are not conventional
quest romances in which Alice matures, overcomes obstacles, and
eventually gains wisdom. For when Alice arrives in Wonderland, she
is already the most reasonable creature there. She is wiser than
any lesson books are able to teach her to be. More important, she
is eminently more reasonable than her own feelings will allow her
to express. What comes after for Alice? Near the end of Through the
Looking Glass, the White Queen tells Alice, "Something's going to
happen!" 
　　Quests for mastery are continually frustrated in the Alice books.
In comparison with the ever—sane Alice, it is the various
Wonderland creatures who appear to be ridiculous, coiners of
abstract word games. Yet Carroll also frustrates, with equal
precision, Alice's more reasonable human desires. Why, after all,
cannot Alice know why the Mad Hatter is mad? Or why will Alice
never get to 20 in her multiplication tables? In Carroll, the logic
of mathematical proofs runs counter to the logic of reasonable
human desire—and neither logic is easily mastered. To his radical
epistemological doubt, Carroll added a healthy dose of skepticism
for the conventional children's story—a story that in his day came
packaged with a moral aim and treated the child as an innocent or
tabula rasa upon which the morals and knowledge of the adult could
be tidily imprinted. 
　　Alice embodies an idea Freud would later develop at length: What
Alice the child already knows, the adult has yet to learn. Or to be
more precise, what Alice has not yet forgotten, the adult has yet
to remember as something that is by nature unforgettable. In other
words, in Alice childhood fantasy meets the reality of adulthood,
which to the child looks as unreal and unreasonable as a Cheshire
Cat's grin or a Queen who yells "Off with her head!" But even as
she calls adult reality unreal, Alice, as the most reasonable
creature in her unreasonable dreams, doesn't quite yet realize that
the adult's sense of reality has already taken up residence in her.
The principal dream of most children—the dream within the dream, as
it were—is the dream of not dreaming any longer, the dream of
growing up. For the adult, the outlook is reversed. The adult's
quest is an inverted one: to find those desires again, in more
reasonable forms—and this involves forgetting the original
childhood desires (to become an adult) in order to remember them as
an adult. The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips notes: "Freud is not
really saying that we are really children, but that the sensual
intensities of childhood cannot be abolished, that our ideals are
transformed versions of childhood pleasures. Looking forward . . .
is a paradoxical form of looking back. The future is where one
retrieves the pleasures, the bodily pleasures of the past."1 The
Alice books manage to show both these quests—that of the child to
look forward, and of the adult to look back—simultaneously, as
mirror logics of each other. 
　　Like both Freud and the surrealists, Carroll implicitly
understood that a child's emotions and desires appear omnipotent
and boundless to the child—and thus make the adult's forgetting of
them difficult if not illogical. Growing up poses psychological and
logical absurdities. The quandary of a logically grounded knowledge
constituted out of an illogical universe pervades both books. The
questions that Alice asks are not answered by the animals in
Wonderland nor by anyone after she wakens. It is likely that her
questions don't have answers or that there are no right questions
to ask. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking
Glass remain the most prophetic of the nineteenth century's
anti-narratives, inverted quest romances, circular mathematical
treatises on the illogical logic of forgetting one's desires. They
display a logic that the child must master in order to grow up. As
the White Queen remarks of the Red Queen: "She's in that state of
mind . . . that she wants to deny something—only she doesn't know
what to deny!"

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