The eNotated Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, Sowers Pam
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(, July 22, 2012)
Though most ebooks are simple conversions of paper books, "The eNotated Alice in Wonderland" is a completely new approach that takes advantage of ebook technology by providing comprehensive eNotations (electronic annotations), essays, and background information conveniently accessible through links and a active table of contents. Written by Pam Sowers, researcher, journalist, and long-time āAliceā fan, this background biographical, historical, and interpretive information reveals an āAliceā not visible to most readers.Says Sowers, āThis book is for adults as well as children. āAlice in Wonderlandā is not simply a sweet childrenās story set in dreamland. It is much more complex. Themes include death, racism, politics, anger, confusion, logic and womenās roles. Carroll wrote in a world controlled by Victorian sensibilities.ā One hundred fifty years ago, Charles Dodgson, joined a party boating from Oxford to Godstow that included three little girls, Alice Liddell and her sisters. In charge of entertainment, Dodgson told the girls a story that with Aliceās encouragement became āAlice in Wonderland,ā published three years later under the pen name Lewis Carroll.Immediately popular and published in hundreds of variously illustrated editions reaching millions of readers over generations, āAliceā has over time become less accessible than it was to Carrollās Victorian contemporaries. Sowersās eNotations supply the tacit background Alice knew but we donāt, revealing the humor, insight, and fun of this many-layered complex book.This eNotated Classics sesquicentennial edition of āAliceā contains more than 90 illustrations, most in color, from the most beloved editions of Alice as well as more than 360 eNotations, an introduction, two fascinating essays, an extensive bibliography, and a chronology showing where Carroll and āAliceā fit in their times.If you read Alice as a child, youāll be amazed on reading the eNotated edition how much you missed and can now appreciate. If you value reading to your child, this eNotated edition, with itās illustrations and eNotations, can provide opportunities for going beyond Carrollās words - to discuss childrenās lives in Victorian England, what punās are, and how logic functions, how dreams differ from daily life and other topics that can engage your child - not just in Carrollās words but the meanings that lie behind them.