About the Book: Don Quixote
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English
Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury This selection of Carrolls works
includes Alices Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the
Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No
greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language,
dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young
readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple
stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary
experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through
wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders