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This Penguin Classic is performed by Katie Leung, star of the Harry Potter films. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Hugh Haughton.

Conjured up one ‘golden afternoon’ in 1862 to amuse Alice Liddell, the daughter from 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 white rabbit into his warren, Alice falls right into a world where croquet is certainly played with hedgehogs and flamingos, an infant becomes a pig, time runs amok at a the Mad Hatter’s tea-party, a chaotic video game of chess makes Alice a Queen and the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille. But amongst the anarchic humour and dazzling wordplay, unforgettable characters, puzzles and riddles, are poignant occasions of nostalgia for a lost childhood. Original and experimental, modified into countless film and television variations as Alice in Wonderland, the Alice books give readers a window on both child and adult worlds.