Many millions kw and love the tale of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , but how many kw the original story behind the famous book? It all began one 'golden afteron' in Oxford, in July 1862, when three young Liddell sisters set out on a boating trip, accompanied by the Reverends Robinson, Duckworth and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. To keep the children amused, Dodgson, a diffident young maths tutor, began to tell a tale about an inquisitive youngster, Alice, and her escapades in an underground world. Dodgson spun out the 'interminable fairy-tale' until Alice Liddell - the heroine of the tale - implored him to write it down, and two tears later, on 26 November, 1864, he sent Alice an early 'Christmas gift for a dear child'.In this superb facsimile of Dodgson's manuscript - w one of the British Library's most treasured possessions - modern readers can enjoy the expressive script and vibrant illustrations of the original. In an accompanying commentary, Sally Brown sketches a portrayal of Dodgson, and traces the stages through which the story passed as it was revised, expanded, illustrated by the Punch cartoonist John Tenniel and finally published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , under the celebrated pen-name Lewis Carroll.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The British Library Publishing Division
ISBN-10
0712356002
ISBN-13
9780712356008
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209355238
Product Key Features
Author
Lewis Carroll
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Content Note
42
Author Biography
Lewis Carroll studied at Christ Church, Oxford and went on to become a mathematics lecturer there from 1855 to 1881. Lewis Carroll's most famous works are Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Alice Through the Looking-Glass, which contains the classic nonsense poem The Jabberwocky.