Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

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The journey began at Folly Bridge, Oxford, and ended 5 miles (8.0km) away in Godstow, Oxfordshire. During the trip Carroll told the girls a story that he described in his diary as "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" and which his journal says he "undertook to write out for Alice". [9] Alice Liddell recalled that she asked Carroll to write it down: unlike other stories he had told her, this one she wanted to preserve. [10] She finally received the manuscript more than two years later. [11] Gardner, Martin (1993) [1960]. The Annotated Alice. Bramhall House. ISBN 0-517-02962-6. OCLC 33157612. Mathematics and logic are central to Alice. [50] As Carroll was a mathematician at Christ Church, it has been suggested that there are many references and mathematical concepts in both this story and Through the Looking-Glass. [51] [52] Literary scholar Melanie Bayley asserts in the New Scientist magazine that Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland in its final form as a satire of mid-19th century mathematics. [53] Eating and devouring [ edit ] Almost as good is Gavin Millar's Dreamchild (1985), scripted by Dennis Potter, in which the elderly Alice Liddell (played by Coral Browne) recalls her life and the genesis of Alice during a 1932 visit to New York. A number of other films draw or comment on Alice with various degrees of obliquity – the Wachowskis's Matrix trilogy, Jacques Rivette's Céline and Julie Go Boating, Woody Allen's Alice and Neil Jordan's Ondine (reviewed below), in which a bright child meets a woman from another world with the comment, "curiouser and curiouser".

Ovenden, Graham (1972). The Illustrators of Alice. New York: St. Martin's Press. p.102. ISBN 978-0-902620-25-4. The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie by Richard Wagner (34 colour plates, 8 line, William Heinemann, London, 1910) July was known as the " golden afternoon", prefaced in the novel as a poem. [12] In fact, the weather around Oxford on 4 July was "cool and rather wet," although at least one scholar has disputed this claim. [13] Scholars debate whether Carroll in fact came up with Alice during the "golden afternoon" or whether the story was developed over a longer period. [12] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass and What She Found There contain the well-known illustrations of Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914).Cinderella by Charles Perrault, ed. Charles S. Evans (1 colour plate, 60 silhouettes, William Heinemann, London, 1919) Sheehy, Helen (1996). Eva Le Gallienne: A Biography. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-41117-8. OCLC 34410008.

If my memory serves me right, Alice never meets other children. The one freaky time she’s close to it, is in Pig and Pepper chapter, with the baby turning into the pig. All else are presented as adults, with issues, and jobs, and fears, and serious tones, and dire threats. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898) – better known by his pen name, ‘Lewis Carroll’. Telling the tale of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by surreal and anthropomorphic creatures, the book was a huge commercial success on its initial publication in 1865. The book plays at the heart of logical problems and literary nonsense – giving the narrative lasting popularity with adults and children alike.

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Look at their physical forms. She’s crouched and twisted, while he is not your Disney-funny-bunny, but rather, a real rabbit, with scary red eyes, and human-sized. The atmosphere is somewhat dreary. Look at that barren tree, at the dry stream. Is this Wonderland? Would you feel safe wandering about in this place? Would you to take tea with this guy? Taylor, Robert N., ed. (1985). "Lewis Carroll at Texas". The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; University of Texas at Austin. ISSN 0024-2241. Lewis Carroll's classic story is wonderfully re-imagined by award-winning and internationally bestselling illustrator Anthony Browne, in a special anniversary edition. Anthony Browne's dazzling illustrations are perfectly paired with the surreal quality of Carroll's writing, making this book a treasure. Basbanes, Nicholas (1999). A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. Macmillan. pp. 210–211. ISBN 978-0-8050-6176-5. Maria Popova in the online article " Leonard'sWeisgard'sStunning 1949 'Alice in Wonderland' Illustrations" describes the illustrations as: "The vibrant, textured artwork exudes a certain mid-century boldness that makes it much a timeless celebration of the beloved children's book as it is a time-capsule of bygone aesthetic from the golden age of illustration and graphic design."

Palmer, Robert (14 November 1993). "Tom Waits, All-Purpose Troubadour". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022 . Retrieved 5 February 2022. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (40 colour plates, 34 line, William Heinemann, London, 1908) The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Alfred W. Pollard (23 colour and monotone plates, 16 line, 1917) The Allies' Fairy Book with an introduction by Edmund Gosse (12 colour plates, 23 line, William Heinemann, London, 1916)a b Berman, Judy (15 October 2020). "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll". Time. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021 . Retrieved 8 May 2021.