Enduring, Endearing Nonsense of Fairy Tales Did you read and enjoy Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books as a child? Or better still, did you have someone read them to you? Perhaps you discovered them as an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven't discovered them at all! Those who have journeyed Through the Looking Glass generally love (or shun) the tales for their unparalleled sense of nonsense. Public interest in the books--from the …showed first 75 words of 660 total…

…showed last 75 words of 660 total…laugh and to wonder, we are also easily led, almost in spite of ourselves, to think as well. FURTHER READING: Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, with an introduction by Morton N. Cohen, Bantam, 1981. Lewis Carroll: The Wasp in a Wig, A "Suppressed Episode of Through the Looking-Glass, Notes by Martin Gardner, Macmillan London Ltd, 1977. Anne Clark: The Real Alice, Michael Joseph Ltd, 1981. Raymond Smullyan: Alice in Puzzleland, William Morrow and Co., 1982.