24 books
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1. Best Fantasy Stories
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the absence of scientific or macabre themes respectively, though these genres overlap. This book is a special collection of twenty best fantasy stories of all time. Here they are : A STRANGE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN A COPPER CYLINDER by James De Mille A WITCH SHALL BE BORN by Robert Ervin Howard ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll AMERICAN FAIRY TALES by Lyman Frank Baum FAIRY TALES by Hans Christian Andersen GODS OF THE NORTH by Robert Ervin Howard IRISH FAIRY TALES by James Stephens JAPANESE FAIRY TALES by Yei Theodora Ozaki PETER PAN (PETER AND WENDY) by J.M. Barrie THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK by Andrew Lang THE BOOK OF DRAGONS by Edith Nesbit THE ENCHANTED CASTLE by Edith Nesbit THE GHOST by Arnold Bennett THE JUNGLE BOOK by Rudyard Kipling THE LOST CONTINENT by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne THE NIGHT LAND by William Hope Hodgson THE RED FAIRY BOOK by Andrew Lang THE SORROWS OF SATAN by Marie Corelli THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by Lyman Frank Baum THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (And What Alice Found There) by Lewis Carroll A well-formatted, easy-to-read book suitable for any e-reader, tablet or computer. The reader will go from one section to another one as quick as possible.
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2. Alice Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll's classic tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantastic world. There she meets a host of talking animals and outlandish creatures, including the legendary White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat.
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3. Alice In Wonderland Collection
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that"s the great puzzle.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland books have delighted readers across the globe for over a hundred years. Alice in Wonderland Collection – All Four Books presents the two most famous Alice books – Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass – as well as the Alice-related fantasy verse The Hunting of the Snark and, for Alice aficionados, a digitized copy of Alice’s Adventures Underground, the shorter, original Alice in Wonderland manuscript which Carroll wrote for his friends and family before they encouraged him to expand the book and send it to a publisher. Also included in this collection - two image galleries showcasing vintage Alice illustrations, first edition covers and author portraits; links to free audio recordings of Alice in Wonderland; and Alice at the Movies, a look at the numerous movie versions over the years. “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
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4. Alice in Wonderland
Collecting Alice's complete adventures, a source of delight to children and adults alike for generations, the Penguin Classics edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is edited with an introduction and notes by Hugh Haughton. Conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Carroll's college, the dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down. Following the white rabbit into his warren, Alice falls into a world where croquet is played with hedgehogs and flamingos, a baby turns into a pig, time runs amok at a the Mad Hatter's tea-party, a chaotic game of chess makes Alice a Queen and the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling wordplay, unforgettable characters, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for a lost childhood. Original and experimental, adapted into countless film and television versions as Alice in Wonderland, the Alice books give readers a window on both child and adult worlds. This is the most comprehensively annotated edition available and includes the manuscript version of Alice's Adventures Under Ground and Carroll's 1887 essay '"Alice" on the stage'. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, Carroll was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1861 he took deacon's orders, but shyness and a constitutional stammer prevented him from seeking the priesthood. If you enjoyed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland you might like Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, also available in Penguin Classics. 'A work of glorious intelligence and literary devices ... nonsense becomes a form of higher sense'Malcolm Bradbury.
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5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
ALICE"S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Dodgson"s tale was published in 1865 as Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland by "Lewis Carroll" with illustrations by John Tenniel. The first print run of 2,000 was held back because Tenniel objected to the print quality. A new edition was quickly printed, released in December of the same year but carrying an 1866 date. The entire print run sold out quickly. Alice was a publishing sensation, beloved by children and adults alike. Among its first avid readers were Queen Victoria and the young Oscar Wilde. The book has never been out of print. Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into at least 174 languages. There have now been over a hundred English-language editions of the book, as well as countless adaptations in other media, especially theatre and film.
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6. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
The sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland tells of Alice’s experiences when she climbs through a mirror to discover a bizarre fantasy world on the other side of the glass. In looking-glass land everything is reversed, just as reflections are reversed in a mirror. Brooks and hedges divide the land into a checker-board, and Alice finds herself a white pawn in the whimsical and fantastic game of chess that constitutes the bulk of the story. On her trip to the eighth square, where she at last becomes a queen, Alice meets talking flowers, looking-glass insects , a man in a white paper suit, such nursery rhyme characters as Humpty Dumpty and the Lion and the Unicorn, and many others, including Tweedledum and Tweededee and the White Knight. Lewis Carroll’s poem Jabberwocky makes its first appearance in Through The Looking Glass.
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7. Through the Looking Glass
Weary of her storybook, one "without pictures or conversations," the young and imaginative Alice follows a hasty hare underground--to come face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures and most fantastic characters in all of literature. The Ugly Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat--each more eccentric than the last--could only have come from that master of sublime nonsense, Lewis Carroll. In penning this brilliant burlesque of children's literature, Carroll has written a farcical satire of rigid Victorian society, an arresting parody of the fears, anxieties, and complexities of growing up. Carroll was one of the few adult writers to successfully enter the children's world of make-believe: where the impossible becomes possible, the unreal--real, and where the height of adventure is limited only by the depths of imagination.
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8. Alice In Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.The journey began at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of Godstow. During the trip the Reverend Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure.The girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version no longer exists. The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest.Lewis Carroll's first appearance of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a much shorter work titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Although the final product is well known for John Tenniel's memorable illustrations, Carroll himself illustrated his original manuscript. In fact, many of Tenniel's illustrations were actually based on Carroll's own. Carroll gave the original, handwritten manuscript to Alice Liddell, the girl for whom his heroine was named.
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9. Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie
"Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie" (comunemente note come "Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie", titolo originale "Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland") è un"opera letteraria pubblicata per la prima volta nel lontano 1865 e scritta dal matematico inglese reverendo Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, sotto lo storico pseudonimo di Lewis Carroll. L"autore Lewis Carroll, pseudonimo di Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Cheshire, 27 gennaio 1832 – Guildford, 14 gennaio 1898), è stato uno scrittore, matematico, fotografo e logico britannico. Introduzione a cura di Clelia Canè Clelia Canè (Formia, 1989) creatrice del mondo di Quieta Radura, è una scrittrice, illustratrice, educatrice e naturalista italiana. Studiosa di pedagogia sperimentale, esperta di home living, attenta estimatrice della cultura anglosassone, appassionata di storia, arte e letteratura, ispira uno stile di vita semplice e raffinato. Traduzione a cura di Silvio Spaventa Filippi (31 agosto 1871 – 21 ottobre 1931), giornalista, traduttore e scrittore italiano.
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10. Through the Looking Glass
This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll"s beloved Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice"s mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects. Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass land into a chessboard, where Alice becomes a pawn in a bizarre game of chess involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, the White Knight, and other nursery-rhyme figures. Promised a crown when she reaches the eighth square, Alice perseveres through a surreal landscape of amusing characters that pelt her with riddles and humorous semantic quibbles and regale her with memorable poetry, including the oft-quoted "Jabberwocky."
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11. Alice au Pays des Merveilles
Assise dans l'herbe un jour d'été, Alice voit passer un lapin blanc qu'elle suit dans son terrier. Elle bascule alors dans un monde extraordinaire et magique. Au cours de cet étrange voyage, elle rencontre des personnages incongrus : des homards qui dansent, un chat qui apparaît pour s'évanouir, une chenille qui fume, ou encore une Reine de Cœur qui veut couper la tête de tout le monde.
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12. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (original 1865 edition with the complete illustrations by Sir John Tenniel)
ALICE"S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Dodgson"s tale was published in 1865 as Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland by "Lewis Carroll" with illustrations by John Tenniel. The first print run of 2,000 was held back because Tenniel objected to the print quality. A new edition was quickly printed, released in December of the same year but carrying an 1866 date. The entire print run sold out quickly. Alice was a publishing sensation, beloved by children and adults alike. Among its first avid readers were Queen Victoria and the young Oscar Wilde. The book has never been out of print. Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into at least 174 languages. There have now been over a hundred English-language editions of the book, as well as countless adaptations in other media, especially theatre and film.
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13. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
“Curioser and curioser!” Alice"s adventures have made her the stuff of legend, the child heroine par excellence, and ensured that Carroll"s book is the best loved and most widely read in children"s literature. This new digital edition of Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland includes two audio links to different free unabridged recordings of the book, a look at the history of Alice In Wonderland movies and an image gallery showcasing the best Alice illustrations culled from over a century of editions (including Lewis Carroll’s own sketches for Alice taken from the type-written manuscript of Alice In Wonderland).
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14. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course, structure, characters, and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
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15. De l'Autre Côté du Miroir
La suite d'Alice... Et toujours autant de merveilles...
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16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
or; Alice in Wonderland (1865) Originally published as Alice' Adventures Under Ground One summer day Alice was sitting on the riverbank with her older sister. Alice's sister was reading a book and Alice noticed that the book didn't have any pictures, which made Alice lose interest in it. Then as she looked out into the meadow, she saw something very peculiar. She saw a large white rabbit running past her looking at his watch saying "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late." Then he popped down a rabbit hole. Alice, being the curious girl she was, followed the rabbit down that hole and found herself in a land with many wonders. It was a wonderland. She met some interesting creatures including the King and Queen of Hearts, the Hatter, and the March Hare. She found that many creatures in this land didn't have the best of tempers and didn't want to try to help Alice figure out where to go and what to do. Alice also found herself changing sizes after eating or drinking things she found. One minute she was a few inches tall and the next she was nine feet tall. When Alice was in this land she expected the unexpected and didn't think much of the unusual occurrences. She used her knowledge to help other people, such as when she made sense of evidence during a trial. As much as Alice thought it interesting being with these strange creatures and trying to get along with them, she wondered when she would return home to her normal life or if she would. She remembered her cat and dreamed of seeing him again. But was there a way to get out or was it all just a dream?--Submitted by Anonymous
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17. Alice nel paese delle meraviglie
SOLIDARIETA" DIGITALE : tutto il nostro catalogo in promozione! EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 04/07/2019. Replica della prima edizione del 1865 con disegni originali di John Tenniel. In un "meriggio dorato" del 1862, come ricordato all"inizio del libro, Lewis Carroll si trovava in barca con un amico, la piccola Alice e le sue due sorelle, e per far divertire le bambine inventò una storia fantastica. Alice lo pregò di metterla per iscritto e il racconto fu pubblicato nel 1865 con il titolo "Le avventure di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie". Vi si narrano le vicende di una bimba di nome Alice, che nel giorno del suo settimo compleanno, seguendo un coniglio bianco con giacca e panciotto, precipita in un magico mondo sotterraneo, dove vive strabilianti avventure e incontra bizzarri personaggi, tra assurdità e paradossi di ogni tipo. Gli stravaganti protagonisti del romanzo non sono però così distanti dalla realtà, in quanto offrono una carrellata dei difetti e delle manie del genere umano, e numerosi sono i riferimenti a personaggi e avvenimenti dell"epoca. In tutta l"opera abbondano inoltre giochi linguistici e matematici, citazioni, nonsense e figure retoriche, che fanno di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie un capolavoro di originalità, da oltre 150 anni letto e tradotto in tutto il mondo.
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18. Alice nel paese delle meraviglie
IN OFFERTA LANCIO! EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 17/12/2018. Immagini dalla prima edizione del 1865 con disegni originali di John Tenniel. In un "meriggio dorato" del 1862, come ricordato all"inizio del libro, Lewis Carroll si trovava in barca con un amico, la piccola Alice e le sue due sorelle, e per far divertire le bambine inventò una storia fantastica. Alice lo pregò di metterla per iscritto e il racconto fu pubblicato nel 1865 con il titolo "Le avventure di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie". Vi si narrano le vicende di una bimba di nome Alice, che nel giorno del suo settimo compleanno, seguendo un coniglio bianco con giacca e panciotto, precipita in un magico mondo sotterraneo, dove vive strabilianti avventure e incontra bizzarri personaggi, tra assurdità e paradossi di ogni tipo. Gli stravaganti protagonisti del romanzo non sono però così distanti dalla realtà, in quanto offrono una carrellata dei difetti e delle manie del genere umano, e numerosi sono i riferimenti a personaggi e avvenimenti dell"epoca. In tutta l"opera abbondano inoltre giochi linguistici e matematici, citazioni, nonsense e figure retoriche, che fanno di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie un capolavoro di originalità, da oltre 150 anni letto e tradotto in tutto il mondo.
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19. Through the Looking - Glass
Through the Looking - Glass by Lewis Carroll. This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects. Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass land into a chessboard, where Alice becomes a pawn in a bizarre game of chess involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, the White Knight, and other nursery-rhyme figures. Promised a crown when she reaches the eighth square, Alice perseveres through a surreal landscape of amusing characters that pelt her with riddles and humorous semantic quibbles and regale her with memorable poetry, including the oft-quoted "Jabberwocky." This handsome, inexpensive edition, makes available to today's readers a classic of juvenile literature long cherished for its humor, whimsy, and incomparable fantasy.
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20. Arpi in Wonderland: Alice in Wonderland for Boys
This collector"s edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. Arpi in Wonderland is Alice in Wonderland for boys, with the main character being male (Arpi), and the main character pronoun and references changed to male. Everything else is the same as the original.This is intended to increase enthusiasm among boys to read and relate to this timeless classic. It tells the story of a boy named Arpi who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world full of unusual and peculiar creatures. The tale plays with logic and words which has given the story a lasting popularity. It is the most memorable example of the literary nonsense genre and, due to its unforgettable narrative, characters and imagery, it remains influential in both popular culture and literature. Lewis Carroll"s masterpiece has inspired and entertained adults and children the world over and will continue to do so for centuries to come. "It leaves the reader with a new set of eyes and ears, and with enhanced imagination and joy." - Maggie Pagratis
