Alice was beginning
to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having
nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was
reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is
the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
So
begins the tale of Alice, following a curious White Rabbit down a
rabbit-hole and falling into Wonderland. A fantastical place, where
nothing is quite as it seems: animals talk, nonsensical characters
confuse, Mad Hatter's throw tea parties and the Queen plays croquet.
Alice's attempts to find her way home become increasingly bizarre,
infuriating and amazing in turn. A beloved classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has continued to delight readers, young and old for over a century.
Weary of her storybook,
one "without pictures or conversations," the young and imaginative Alice
follows a hasty hare underground--to come face-to-face with some of the
strangest adventures and most fantastic characters in all of
literature.
The Ugly Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock
Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat--each more
eccentric than the last--could only have come from that master of
sublime nonsense, Lewis Carroll.
In penning this brilliant
burlesque of children's literature, Carroll has written a farcical
satire of rigid Victorian society, an arresting parody of the fears,
anxieties, and complexities of growing up.
Carroll was one of
the few adult writers to successfully enter the children's world of
make-believe: where the impossible becomes possible, the unreal--real,
and where the height of adventure is limited only by the depths of
imagination.
Alice was beginning
to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having
nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was
reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is
the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
So
begins the tale of Alice, following a curious White Rabbit down a
rabbit-hole and falling into Wonderland. A fantastical place, where
nothing is quite as it seems: animals talk, nonsensical characters
confuse, Mad Hatter's throw tea parties and the Queen plays croquet.
Alice's attempts to find her way home become increasingly bizarre,
infuriating and amazing in turn. A beloved classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has continued to delight readers, young and old for over a century.
Long before she was the
terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.
Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a
favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie
elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her
best friend. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for
the young woman who could be the next queen.
Then Cath meets
Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. For the first time, she
feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the king and
infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret
courtship. Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love
on her terms. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters,
fate has other plans.
In her first stand-alone teen novel, the New York Times-bestselling author dazzles us with a prequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
