Essays & Correspondence, Anthologies, 890, 800-900, 850-950 

A fresh practical approach to two of Carroll s most beloved works which chronicle the magical captivating adventures of Alice in Wonderland Guy Mannering or The Astrologer first published in 1815 was Walter Scott s second novel Guy Mannering only half believes in his art but does believe in the ability of his patriarchal power wealth and social position to sort out social confusion However he has to learn the limits of a nabob's authority in a society that in the 1780s is no longer a single hierarchy but has many subsets each with its own laws gypsies smugglers Edinburgh lawyers the Border store farmer the traditional landowner Guy Mannering is set at the time of the American Revolution and represents a Scotland at once backward and advanced patriarchal and commercial traditional and modern a country in very varied stages of progression This is the first modern edition of one of Scott s finest works It is based on the first edition but is corrected from the manuscript and restores around two thousand readings lost through error or misunderstanding For the first time it includes Scott s extended portraits of the Edinburgh literati which were unaccountably omitted from the printed version The young Alice follows a hasty hare underground to come face to face with some of the strangest adventures in all of literature In this arresting parody of the fears anxieties and complexities of growing up readers enter the world of make believe where the impossible becomes possible and the heights of adventure are unlimited Weary of her storybook one without pictures or conversations young and imaginative Alice follows a hasty hare underground where she comes face to face with some of the strangest adventures and most fantastic characters in all 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 have come only from that master.

Lexile Level: 890
Grade Level: 5-6