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many A Day We Rowed Together On That Quiet Stream...and Many A Fairy Tale Had Been Extemporized...yet None Of These Tales Got Written Down: They Lived And Died...each In Its Own Golden Afternoon Until There Came A Day When, As It Chanced, One Of The Listeners Petitioned That The Tale Might Be Written Down For Her. Thus, In 1864, Oxford Mathematician Charles Dodgson (under The Pen Name Of Lewis Carroll) Presented Family Friend, Alice Liddell With The First Edition Of What Would Become The Inimitable Classic, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Seven Years After Alice's Success, Carroll Published Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There, The Equally Beloved Sequel. Freshly And Imaginatively Narrated, Listeners Will Be Delighted To Accompany Alice On Her Journey Into A World Where Nonsense And Mayhem Would Reign Supreme, But For The Satirical Practicality Of A Child. publishers Weekly zwerger's (the Wizard Of Oz) Captivating Cover Image Of The Mad Tea-party For This Edition Of Carroll's 1865 Tale Conveys The Psychological Tension Of The Interior Artwork: Alice, At The Head Of An Elongated Table With A Pristine White Linen Cloth, Stares At The Pocket Watch That The March Hare Is About To Lower Into His Cup Of Tea. The Hare, Bug-eyed, Gazes Out At Readers While The Mad Hatter To His Right, Wearing A Hat Box, Fixates On A Black Upturned Chapeau (in Lieu Of A Place Setting), And The Dormouse Between Them Sleeps. Across The Table, An Empty Red Mug Is Placed In Front Of A Vacant Green Chair, And A Teacup And Saucer Trimmed In Red Seems To Be Set For The Reader. The Painting Conveys The Way In Which Zwerger Brilliantly Manages Both To Invite Readers Into The Story And To Keep Them At A Distance. From The Heroine's First Appearance, As She Falls Down A Well While Chasing The White Rabbit, With A Glimpse Of Orderly Bookshelves At The Upper Left Corner, Zwerger Demonstrates The Many Layers To Alice's Journey: A Cutaway View Reveals That The Bulk