Gramercy Classics Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works - Hardcover

Rh Value Publishing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517100274 ISBN 13: 9780517100271

Publisher: Gramercy, 1994

Synopsis

An anthology of Carroll's fiction and poetry includes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," "Alice's Adventures Underground," and "The Hunting of the Snark."

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Review:

This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.

Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.

Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection.

From the Inside Flap:

This deluxe edition includes all of Carroll's major fiction and poetry, including Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, the facsimile of the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground in Carroll's handwriting and with his own drawings. Also included are a biographical chronology of Lewis Carroll's life, and a selected biography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gramercy
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0517100274
• ISBN 13: 9780517100271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 880