Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English writer, mathematician, and logician. He is best known for his whimsical and imaginative works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). Carroll's writing is characterized by wordplay, logic puzzles, and surreal imagery, which have influenced both literature and popular culture. Additionally, he was a skilled photographer and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford.