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Alices Adventures in Wonderland, through with(predicate) the Looking nut 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 enormous proportions 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 decipher the basic musical style of nearly all childrens work, they are written in simple and clear language, feature a young hero and an amazing, unbelievable assign of characters, are circumscribe in places of mystery and illusion, and seem far too nonsensical and unusual for adults to enjoy. Even their author, Lewis Carro ll, believed them to be childrens stories. Yet Carroll and generations of parents and children have been wrong. While these stories may seem typic 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 math 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 impulsive 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 gravy boat ride with ternary 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. immature York Vanguard Press, Inc., 1971. Masslich, George. A Book inwardly 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 run-in 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. 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 proportions before h er 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 Vi ctorian 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 and Language in Thro ugh 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.