alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll

In many of the versions I've seen, Alice comes across as a rather bossy and determined little girl but her she is confident but sympathetic. I think she has captured the spirit of Alice rather well. There are some of her pencil sketches and a few watercolours combined with pencil backgrounds. Helen Oxenbury has a wonderful way with perspective and a slightly cartoonish drawing style that is perfectly suited to this particular book. I bought it for the illustrations and they really dazzle. He published Alice in Wonderland in 1865 and it became increasingly popular.Īnyway, that's not why I bought the book. Maybe he just liked writing stories to entertain. Seemed just slightly creepy to me.but give him the benefit of the doubt. (He became interested in photography and about 60% of his photos were of young girls. I recall seeing a book of his that I think contained photos of young girls. But Charles Dodgson seemed to have a rather unhealthy interest in young girls. So the book is full of logical questions, paradoxes, illogical answers and mathematical quirks.

He was Charles Dodgson who went under the pen name of Lewis Carroll. it It was only as an adult that I kind of got interested in the author who was a lecturer in Mathematics and logic at Christ's College Oxford. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go', said the Cat. neither more nor less'and.'Would you please tell me which way I ought to go from here?'.That depends a good deal on where you want to get to', said the Cat. like.'Words mean precisely what I want them to mean. I shared a flat (apartment) once, however, with a guy who was very keen on Alice in Wonderland and was always citing stuff from it. Adults always seemed to be foisting it on me and I thought it was all very weird and unbelievable and full of tricky insider jokes for adults. Actually, I never liked the story as a kid. I really like Helen Oxenbury's work and here was a great collection of her work for $5 at the local markets.who could resist. Why do you want another copy of Alice in Wonderland when you already have at least three copies and other abbreviated versions? Well, it was really for the illustrations.

Alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll