Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: Easy Read Classics Series. To promote English learning among Chinese middle school students and cultivate their cultural literacy and literary appreciation, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, after extensive deliberation and market research, decided to introduce a series of abridged literary classics from the British Macmillan Publishing Company to Chinese middle school students. From this series of abridged literary classics by Macmillan, SFLP carefully selected 40 books, compiling them into the "Easy Read Classics Series," with difficulty levels spanning levels 3 to 8 of the "English Curriculum Standards." This series includes classic works by literary masters from the UK, the US, France, and other countries, such as those by Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Hardy, and Alexandre Dumas. To help middle school students better grasp the essence of the original works and the creative journey of the authors, SFLP has specially annotated the language difficulties in the reading materials and included background introductions about the authors and their works. We sincerely hope that the "Easy Read Classics Series" will help improve the literary appreciation level of Chinese middle school students, cultivate their moral character, enhance their English reading skills, and become the key to opening the door to reading English literary classics for middle school students.
Lewis Carroll is famous for writing children's stories. His stories are vivid, imaginative, and engaging, captivating readers completely. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally a series of stories that the author told to three little sisters while boating along the River Cherwell at Oxford University on a sunny afternoon. Later, Alice Liddell and her sisters, Lorina and Edith, asked the author to write down the stories, which were first published by Macmillan in 1866. The author later wrote other interesting stories, such as Through the Looking-Glass.
Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was a mathematician who served as a professor at Christ Church, Oxford, for 28 years. During his tenure, he wrote many profound mathematical works, including Algebraic Geometry, On Determinants, and Euclid and His Contemporary Competitors. At the same time, he had a passion for photography in his spare time, taking photos of children as well as portraits of Ruskin and Tennyson.