Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Author: (English) Carol Zhang Xiaolu
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Publish Date: 1998-05-01
Features: The language of this book is witty and humorous, full of charm. Those vivid, fresh, satirical, and enigmatic non-verbal expressions, the occasional wordplay, portmanteaus, or limericks and puns inserted into the storyline, as well as the playful wordplay starting from "Jabberwocky," often leave readers baffled but give the work a unique aesthetic appeal. Among them, "Jabberwocky," the famous poem in "Alice Through the Looking-Glass," takes Carol's linguistic characteristics to the extreme, earning admiration from the world. The absurd portmanteau "Jabberwocky" was also included in the Oxford English Dictionary from then on.