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Trans La Spegulo Kaj Kion Alico Trovis Tie
Trans La Spegulo Kaj Kion Alico Trovis Tie
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is a summer tale, published by Lewis Carroll (pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) for the first time in July 1865. Many of the characters and adventures in that book are based on a pack of playing cards, such as the ill-tempered Queen of Hearts. "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There", on the other hand, is a winter tale, first published by Carroll in December 1871, in which most of the characters and adventures are based on the game of chess. (Two characters from the first tale, the March Hare and the Hatter, reappear in the second in the guise of the White King's messengers, Haigha and Hatta.) "Through the Looking-Glass" is also more a book for adults than than its predecessor, featuring more word-play and logical paradoxes. At the end of the book you will also find the "suppressed" episode "The Wasp in a Wig". This was originally intended to be part of Chapter VIII of "Through the Looking-Glass", but Carroll omitted it shortly before publication at the urging of John Tenniel, who illustrated the first editions of both books. Donald Broadribb's Esperanto translation of "Through the Looking-Glass" was first published by Bookleaf Publishing (Beverley, Western Australia) in 1996, under the title "Tra la Spegulo kaj kion Alico trovis tie". To date Broadribb's work remains the only Esperanto translation of Carroll's sequel, though several of the individual poems in "Through the Looking-Glass" have been translated by others, most notably "Jabberwocky", which exists in no fewer than four Esperanto versions besides Broadribb's. These four translations are presented in this volume as appendices following "The Wasp in a Wig".
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