Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection)

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Preferring the company of children to adults, his Alice books were inspired by his friendship with the young Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, where Carroll was a mathematics instructor. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain".

Mad Hatter and the March Hare having their eternal tea party while asking Alice riddles they don’t know the answer of themselves, Caterpillar smoking a hookah while sitting on a mushroom (with certain ‘properties’) , the ugly Duchess and her pig and lastly the Queen of Hearts ( “Off with her/his head! In the eighth chapter, three cards are painting the roses on a rose tree red, because they had accidentally planted a white-rose tree that The Queen of Hearts hates.Scurry down the rabbit hole and step through the looking glass with this luxurious compilation of works from Lewis Carroll. The metaphors and morals were much more profound than I anticipated I enjoyed them so much more than I thought I would. And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember having seen such a thing. He subsequently approached John Tenniel to reinterpret Carroll's visions through his own artistic eye, telling him that the story had been well liked by the children.

As all Carroll admirers know, his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages.Alice has provided a challenge for other illustrators, including those of 1907 by Charles Pears and the full series of colour plates and line-drawings by Harry Rountree published in the (inter-War) Children's Press (Glasgow) edition. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–98), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and a photographer.

She reportedly enjoyed Alice enough that she asked for Carroll's next book, which turned out to be a mathematical treatise; Carroll denied this.The design is simple and stylish, the paper is of good quality (the type size is about 10), the book even has a ribbon book mark! Though Carroll did add his own illustrations to the original copy, on publication he was advised to find a professional illustrator so the pictures were more appealing to its audiences.