Alice Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Overview

Ken Campbell, Windsor Davies, John Bird, and John Fortune star in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatization. When Alice's wish to visit the Looking Glass world comes true, she can't resist delving deeper and deeper into a land of caustic characters and twisted logic. So begins a game of chess on a grand scale, where the inhabitants of each square have their own set of rules. In her bid to become Queen of the Chess Board, Alice takes advice from such peculiar folk as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, and a very helpful gnat.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786050459012
Publisher:	LVL Editions
Publication date:	06/16/2016
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. Carroll was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass . He was noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor and Anglican deacon. Dodgson was the eldest son and third child in a family of seven girls and four boys born to Frances Jane Lutwidge, the wife of the Rev. Charles Dodgson. He was born in the old parsonage at Daresbury. His father was perpetual curate there from 1827 until 1843, when he became rector of Croft in Yorkshire—a post he held for the rest of his life though later he also became archdeacon of Richmond and a canon of Ripon cathedral.

Date of Birth:

January 27, 1832

Date of Death:

January 14, 1898

Place of Birth:

Daresbury, Cheshire, England

Place of Death:

Guildford, Surrey, England

Education:

Richmond School, Christ Church College, Oxford University, B.A., 1854; M.A., 1857

Website:

http://www.lewis-carroll-birthplace.org.uk/

Editorial Reviews

Excellent engineering and uneven writing make this full-cast production a mixed adventure. Lewis Carroll's second "Alice" novel is adapted without the advantage of narration, which gives the story immediacy and provides an excellent showcase for the performers but not without compromising Carroll's original story. There are some long stretches of story where there is no dialogue, and in order to describe Alice's experiences, the listener is forced to listen to long and awkward soliloquies by the main character. The scriptwriter made other choices that sometimes miss Carroll's whimsy while at other times taking the characters too far to the point of silliness. Children are likely to be entranced by ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, but adults will likely prefer literal readings of the book. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2010 - AudioFile