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Alices Adventures in Wonderland, with the sounding icing and What Alice prove There For Adults Only Curiouser and curiousercried Alice (Carroll, Alices Adventures in Wonderland 9). At the time she was communicate of the fact that her body seemed to be growing to commodious proportions before her precise eyes however, she could instead draw been speaking active the entire record of Lewis Carrolls classic works Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. At first glance, the novels seem easy equal to understand. They are straightforward childrens stories filled with fantastical language and wonderful worlds. They companion the basic genre of nearly all childrens work, they are written in simple and expel language, feature a young hero and an amazing, incredible cast of characters, are set in places of mystery and illusion, and seem faraway too wet and unusual for adults to enjoy. Even their author, Lewis Carroll, believe d them to be childrens stories. Yet Carroll and generations of parents and children have been wrong. While these stories may seem typical childrens fare, they are distinctly different. Their symbolism, content, and gist make the Alice books unambiguously intended for adults. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born in 1832 in dainty England. He was a mathematics professor, nevertheless he had a real peculiar terce-fold identity. Most of the time he was C. L. Dodgson, the shy, stammering mathematics professor, but on actor he became Lewis Carroll, the dynamic fantasist and parodist (Matuz 105). He began his life in opus by publishing typical and uninspiring tracts astir(predicate) mathematics and politics, but after an inspirational boat ride with three young girls, he began the... ...dventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. The Sewanee Review XXXV (1927) 393-398. Hudson, Derek. Lewis Carroll. British Writers 5 (1982) 265-266. Leach, Elsie. Alice in Wonderland in Perspect ive. 1964. raw York Vanguard Press, Inc., 1971. Masslich, George. A loudness within a Book. The English Journal X (1921) 122. Matuz, Roger, ed. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Detroit Gale Research, Inc., 1991. Priestley, J. B. A Note on Humpty Dumpty. I for One. London John Lane, 1923. 194. Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Logic and address in Through the Looking-Glass. 1961. New York Vanguard Press, Inc., 1971. Wilson, Edmund. C. L. Dodgson The Poet Logician. 1932. New York Vanguard Press, Inc., 1971. Woolf, Virginia. Lewis Carroll. The Moment and other(a) Essays. New York Harcourt coupling Jovanovich, Inc., 1948. 83. Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and What AlAlices Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There For Adults Only Curiouser and curiousercried Alice (Carroll, Alices Adventures in Wonderland 9). At the time she was speaking of the fact that her body seemed to be growing to immense pr oportions before her very eyes however, she could instead have been speaking about the entire nature of Lewis Carrolls classic works Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. At first glance, the novels seem easy enough to understand. They are simple childrens stories filled with fantastical language and wonderful worlds. They follow the basic genre of nearly all childrens work, they are written in simple and clear language, feature a young hero and an amazing, unbelievable cast of characters, are set in places of mystery and illusion, and seem far too nonsensical and unusual for adults to enjoy. Even their author, Lewis Carroll, believed them to be childrens stories. Yet Carroll and generations of parents and children have been wrong. While these stories may seem typical childrens fare, they are distinctly different. Their symbolism, content, and message make the Alice books uniquely intended for adults. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born in 1832 in Victorian England. He was a mathematics professor, but he had a very peculiar dual identity. Most of the time he was C. L. Dodgson, the shy, stammering mathematics professor, but on occasion he became Lewis Carroll, the dynamic fantasist and parodist (Matuz 105). He began his career in writing by publishing typical and uninspiring tracts about mathematics and politics, but after an inspirational boat ride with three young girls, he began the... ...dventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. The Sewanee Review XXXV (1927) 393-398. Hudson, Derek. Lewis Carroll. British Writers 5 (1982) 265-266. Leach, Elsie. Alice in Wonderland in Perspective. 1964. New York Vanguard Press, Inc., 1971. Masslich, George. A Book within a Book. The English Journal X (1921) 122. Matuz, Roger, ed. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Detroit Gale Research, Inc., 1991. Priestley, J. B. A Note on Humpty Dumpty. I for One. London John Lane, 1923. 194. Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Logic an d Language in Through the Looking-Glass. 1961. New York Vanguard Press, Inc., 1971. Wilson, Edmund. C. L. Dodgson The Poet Logician. 1932. New York Vanguard Press, Inc., 1971. Woolf, Virginia. Lewis Carroll. The Moment and Other Essays. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1948. 83.