Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

📒 Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, are two of the most famous nineteenth-century children's fantasy novels. In fact, these books inaugurated a new era of children's literature in English: books that didn't have to be didactic or moralistic, that didn't teach children lessons. Books that simply created imaginative worlds in which children could let their minds roam free. The result was a style of writing that simultaneously embraced nonsense and logic. While other Victorian books for children - like Tom Brown's Schooldays and the works of Mary Louisa Molesworth and Mary Martha Sherwood - gave rules for living, these books simply provided space in which to live.