Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: The only edition with all 42 of John Tenniel's illustrations in COLOUR (Aziloth Books) - Softcover

Carroll, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911405136 ISBN 13: 9781911405139

Publisher: Aziloth Books, 2016

Synopsis

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is the world’s first surrealist book, written in 1865, at a time when surrealism had not yet been invented.  The author of this dream-like fantasy, full of puns and ironic comments on life, was Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), who devised the story for three young girls during a boat trip on the river Isis in Oxford. 

Since its publication, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been a favourite with children of all ages – and adults, too, can find deeper layers of meaning beneath the madcap adventures of Alice and her outlandish army of comic characters.  The story has been translated into 125 different languages and, after the Bible, Qur’an and Shakespeare, is the most frequently quoted book in the world.

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Review

Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.

For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter

From the Publisher

This book is in Electronic Paperback Format. If you view this book on any of the computer systems below, it will look like a book. Simple to run, no program to install. Just put the CD in your CDROM drive and start reading. The simple easy to use interface is child tested at pre-school levels.

Windows 3.11, Windows/95, Windows/98, OS/2 and MacIntosh and Linux with Windows Emulation.

Includes Quiet Vision's Dynamic Index. the abilty to build a index for any set of characters or words.

This Electronic Paperback is illustrated.

This Electronic Paperback is read aloud by an actor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aziloth Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1911405136
• ISBN 13: 9781911405139
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 92