"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
Taking to heart his charming, insatiably curious heroine's words, Lewis Carroll worked many long hours (days, months...) with illustrator Sir John Tenniel to create the most perfect pictures imaginable for what were to become instant classics: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. When thinking about Alice and her dreamy surrealistic adventures down the rabbit hole and behind the looking-glass, who can help picturing the golden-haired girl in her lilac dress and striped stockings, gazing up at the Cheshire Cat or arguing with Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Tenniel's drawings remained black and white for over 40 years until 1911, when eight prints in each book were hand colored. Now, for the first time, every remaining illustration has been colored, making these the first editions to feature all of the original art in full color. Traditionalists need not worry: colorist Diz Wallis colored proofs taken from Tenniel's carefully preserved woodblocks, remaining faithful to his original drawings. The beautiful tones of these new hardcover editions look as natural as can be; they could just as easily be from the 19th century. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter
Product Description: Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll worked many long hours (days, months...) with illustrator Sir John Tenniel to create the most perfect pictures imaginable for what were to become instant classics: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. When thinking about Alice and her dreamy surrealistic adventures down the rabbit hole and behind the looking-glass, who can help picturing the golden-haired girl in her lilac dress and striped stockings, gazing up at the Cheshire Cat or arguing with Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Tenniel's drawings remained black and white for over 40 years until 1911, when eight prints in each book were hand colored. Now, for the first time, every remaining illustration has been colored, making these the first editions to feature all of the original art in full color. Traditionalists need not worry: colorist Diz Wallis colored proofs taken from Tenniel's carefully preserved woodblocks, remaining faithful to his original drawings. The beautiful tones of these new hardcover editions look as natural as can be; they could just as easily be from the 19th century.
Alice in wonderland is great, very creative, and very imaginative. Alice falls into a world that is much like a dream, and it flows well from one incident to the next. Through the looking glass was harder to follow because it jumped into each event. Our dreams tend to put us from one place to the next with no journey. It is patterned like she's walking through a giant chess board. However, I do like that everything Alice does is backwards. Contrariwise to the mirror she walked through. Very creative. I would definitely share this book with a child. It may be confusing at times, but it is fun.
Take drugs; read book ^ I think you either have to be really young or on lots of drugs to enjoy this book. It made my head hurt. I prefer things to make sense, I guess.
Into another World ^ The story of Alice in Wonderland 1 and 2 is a well thought story that brings you to a place of "nonsense". The way Lewis Carrol wrote it has to do a lot about politics and the way of reality. Alice always thinks what's the point of a book that shows nothing interesting whatsoever? Well later on she discovers that there are a few reasons why s some things are not nonsense. These are some of the nonesense things; Drinks make you shrink, cakes make you grow, cats can dissapear, and flowers can sing. Some of the things Alice does can be thought as lessons, the sentence "Curiosity killed that cat" is used in other ways in the story, starting with chasing a rabbit down a tunnle. This is a fascinating story that I would recommend to anyone, even people that don't like to read; I'm one of those people. This is a well written story that anyone can read. 5 STARS!
Excellent edition of a known classic! ^ Cohen's introduction provided interesting insight into the life of Charles Dodgeson and the history that surrounds the creation of these 2 books. I love that all the original artwork is contained in this affordable little paperback as well. A must-have for every personal library.
Enourmously Influential ^ Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' are part of our culture. Who isn't familiar with the Mad Hatter, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, or "Off with his head!". ' Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland starts out a little slow but gets better as it goes on. "Through the Looking Glass' is more consistent and I found it to be more enjoyable. I'm not sure how well children would enjoy it today, but it is well worth reading to understand the cultural references.
Kindle Edition "just OK" ^ The books are outstanding classics and I have no complaints about them.
The Kindle formatting leaves a bit to be desired.
A functioning Contents page would be fantastic, especially if you want to skip ahead to the second book without having to manually flip through the pages.
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