Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-10-12
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury USA
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Summary

Carroll's classic stories reunited with Peake's celebrated illustrations, restored for the first time to their original glory. In the 1940s, Gormenghast trilogy author Mervyn Peake was commissioned to produce a series of seventy pen-and-ink drawings to accompany Lewis Carroll's two classics, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Previously admired for his illustrations of Treasure Island and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Peake set to work, producing such luminous, eccentric images that Graham Greene would later refer to him as 'the first artist since Tenniel to recast Alice in a contemporary mould.' In these editions, Peake's marvelous illustrations, many of them originally drawn on poor quality wartime paper, have been meticulously reproduced as they were meant to be seen. Thanks to a combination of old-fashioned craft and cutting-edge computer technology, the delightful images shine for the first time in over two decades alongside Carroll's fantastically eccentric text. With introductions by modern literary masters Will Self and Zadie Smith, these beautifully designed and printed books are the perfect gift for adults and children alike.

Author Biography

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, was a lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford University when he wrote Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

Mervyn Peake (1911-68) was an artist and writer. His illustration credits include Treasure Island, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and the Brothers Grimm's Household Tales. As a novelist, he is best known for his Gormenghast trilogy.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Will Self
How the Story Was Told xviii
Down the Rabbit-Hole
3(12)
The Pool of Tears
15(12)
A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
27(11)
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
38(15)
Advice from a Caterpillar
53(15)
Pig and Pepper
68(17)
A Mad Tea-Party
85(14)
The Queen's Croquet-Ground
99(16)
The Mock Turtle's Story
115(15)
The Lobster Quadrille
130(13)
Who Stole the Tarts?
143(15)
Alice's Evidence
158

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