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Roger Fenton's Letters from the Crimea
I enjoyed this book. Fenton's work was a new and interesting development of the photographic arts.His letters give a unique insite into the day to day life of the participants.He was very good at describing the enviornment around him and done in a manner that is easy to read and interesting in his prose. ... Read more

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This new collection of the letters that Lewis Carroll wrote to the illustrators and prospective illustrators of his books affords fresh insights into Carroll’s complex character, traces the history of the books that became great classics of the Victorian era, and charts the sometimes tempestuous seas of Carroll’s relationships with his correspondents. Carroll, a meticulous artist, made detailed demands upon his illustrators, who included John Tenniel, Henry Holiday, Arthur Burdett Frost, Harry Furniss, and Gertrude Thomson.

Lewis Carroll and His Illustrators reveals the author as an expert in the details of book production in an age in which new technologies repeatedly altered the publishing process. Morton N. Cohen and Edward Wakeling’s general introduction to the volume looks at Lewis Carroll the man and touches on his place in Victorian publishing. Each group of letters is preceded by an introduction that includes a brief biography of the artist and a summary of his or her collaboration with Carroll. Many of the letters include Carroll’s own sketches as aids to his collaborators. Comparison of these sketches with the artists’ final drawings, also included, shed light on the genesis of the illustrations. Some letters from the illustrators to Carroll, also printed here, add greater insight into the process. ... Read more

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La inconfesable pasión que el matemático, sacerdote y escritor Lewis Carroll sentía por la niña Alice Liddell dio pie a uno de los libros más fascinantes de la literatura de todos los tiemposLa inconfesable pasión que el matemático, sacerdote y escritor Lewis Carroll sentía por la niña Alice Liddell dio pie a uno de los libros más fascinantes de la literatura de todos los tiempos. En un mundo mágico en el que nada es lo que parece, se suceden todo tipo de juegos que ponen a prueba nuestro ingenio y nuestra manera de comprender el mundo. La sutil sátira contra las convenciones de la educación inglesa y la política van de la mano de personajes que forman ya parte de nuestro imaginario, como el Conejo Blanco, el Sombrerero, el Gato de Cheshire o la Reina de Corazones. ... Read more

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This interpretation of Lewis Carroll's poem offers a view of childhood. In this version, snarks are bombs hunted by a local gang of children in wartime Britain. As the hunt goes on, the conflict between self-interest and the general good grows; and friendships and alliances are built and broken. ... Read more

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"I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - I said it in German and Greek:"
This is a great nonsensical tale that probably will need an annotated version to make sense.Not of the purpose as that is in the title. But of the few words that are real but archaic. In any sense this is a fun read. I want to believe it holds some profound secret other than just a play on words.

"They sought it with Thimbles, they sot it with care;

They threatened its life with forks and hope;

They threatened its life with a railway-share;

They charmed it with smiles and soap."

You will want to re-read "The Hunting of the Snark an Agony, in Eight Fits" (1876) and see with other allegorical nonsense you missed.

The Annotated Hunting of the Snark (The Annotated Books)

It is possible that the author was laying a trap
The poem is Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's (and Joseph Swain's) masterpiece (5 stars). In the 2010 Evertype edition I miss the "Easter Greeting" (minus one star; the publisher chose to publish it in his edition of Alice's Adventures under Ground), which Carroll inserted into the already printed book perhaps in order to defuse that explosive ballad a bit. Hint: Compare Holiday's "Billiard marker" with Henry George Liddell, Carroll's boss at Christ Church College. There are many more conundrums in the poem and in the illustrations.

Three quotes, which are related to this book:

(1) "Are these strange words from a writer of such tales as 'Alice'? And is this a strange letter to find in a book of nonsense? It may be so. Some perhaps may blame me for thus mixing together things grave and gay; others may smile and think it odd that any one should speak of solemn things at all ... And if I have written anything to add to those stores of innocent and healthy amusement that are laid up in books for the children I love so well, it is surely something I may hope to look back upon without shame and sorrow (as how much of life must then be recalled!) when my turn comes to walk through the valley of shadows." (Lewis Carroll, 1876)

This is from the "Easter Greeting".

(2) "Perhaps I may venture, for a moment, to use a more serious tone, and to point out that there are mental troubles, much worse than mere worry, for which an absorbing subject of thought may serve as a remedy. There are skeptical thoughts, which seem for the moment to uproot the firmest faith; there are blasphemous thoughts, which dart unbidden into the most reverent souls; there are unholy thoughts, which torture, with their hateful presence, the fancy that would fain be pure. Against all these some real mental work is a most helpful ally." (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: Pillow Problems and a Tangled Tale, 1885, p. XV)

Sometimes I have the feeling, that friends of "The Hunting of the Snark" are afraid of "overanalysis". Some even may fear, that the Snark may have to leave the public library. But even if one day we would speak openly about all its textual and graphical elements, the book still will be one of the greatest children books in the library. This is, because Carroll and Holiday did not place these elements into the Snark for their personal satisfaction. Henry Holiday gave us a hint:

(3) "It is possible that the author was half-consciously laying a trap, so readily did he take to the inventing of puzzles and things enigmatic; but to those who knew the man, or who have devined him correctly through his writings, the explanation is fairly simple." (Henry Holiday on Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", January 29th, 1898)

In the preface to the Snark, Carroll points to his intentions by pretending, that he would not point to them: "I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History." (As a logician, Carroll of course knows, how such a sentence works.) I think that Carroll was very serious about this statement. It is not ironical. The book holds the readers and the beholders of the Snark ballad responsible for the meanig which THEY give to the poem and to the illustrations. That is how Carroll's and Holiday's "nonsense" works. Keep this in mind and do not underestimate the Snark or assume any inproper intentions on the side of the authors. The book just tells the readers (and they beholders of the illustrations), what they have in their mind. Take Holiday's warning about Carroll's traps serious, then you can enjoy the book without getting caught by the Boojum.

In the Snark edition published by Evertype you won't find serious analysis. That is fine, the book has been published to offer plain Snark to the whole family. (That is why I miss the Easter Greeting.) Those who want to dig deeper should turn to Martin Gardener's "Annotaded Snark" (1981): Charles Mitchell's "The Designs for the Snark" in the 1981 Kaufmann edition of the Annotaded Snark still is a great collection of information on the Snark poem and its illustrations.

Links: Victorian Approaches to Religion As Reflected in the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites (Philosphiae Doctores)|Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, The New Version, Second edition, Revised and Enlarged|Lewis Carroll & his Illustrators: Collaborations & Correspondence 1865-1898.|The Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators: The Published Graphic Art of the English Pre-Raphaelites and Their Associates With Critical Biographical Essays and Illustrated Catalogues of the|Arne Nordheim: Hunting Of The Snark (Music Sales America)|Arne Nordheim: The Return Of The Snark (contemporary composition for trombone and tape recorder)|Nyndk: The Hunting of the Snark (Jazz, B002S395C6)

Great poem, poor presentation
The one-star rating is only for the appearance of this edition on the Kindle 2.It is the one available for free from amazon.com.The text is riddled with extraneous characters.None of the delightful drawings are included.One does get what one pays for.

Other Books
The Hunting of the Snark is a whacky piece of poetical silliness by Lewis Caroll.Complete nonsense, no-one knows what a Snark is, or why Snark hunters hunt it, or why anyone would want to become a Snark hunter to start with.Anyway, the poem is definitely amusing at times with some of the humour he slips in.

Carroll's Short and Sweet Chaucer Imitation
The Hunting of the Snark seems to be a very, very short imitation of The Canterbury Tales.The first chapter (titled a fit) introduces all of the occupations of all the different people going on a journey.However, instead of going on a general pilgrimage and telling tales along the way, their trip is very specific to hunting.

The Baker actually attempts to tell a story, but the Bellman (who leads the group) says there's no time for storytelling.They have to catch the Snark before nightfall.

Along with the Bellman and Baker, a Banker, a Bonnet-maker, a Butcher, a Boots, a Billiard-maker, a Barrister, a Broker, and a Beaver tag along to hunt for the Snark.The Beaver is afraid of getting cut by the Butcher, so he puts on a dagger-proof coat and talks to the Banker about buying an insurance policy.

The Beaver is involved in a hilarious scene with the Butcher later, when the two attempt to compute sums.But perhaps the funniest scene of the entire book is in the Barrister's dream when the Snark declares sentence on a pig, only to find out the pig has been dead long before the trial even began.

I'd highly recommend this short poem for Carroll fans, even though it's not big enough to contain but a small portion of what's to be found in the Alice books. ... Read more

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Very informative and fairly entertaining.
As a self-proclaimed James Barrie freak, I've read numerous books and newspaper-magazine articles about him. The Barrie chapter in Inventing Wonderland is definetly one of the most informative, but it loses a few points in the entertainment department. I read the Carroll, Barrie, and Milne chapters and thought that Jackie Wullschlager tends to examine her subjects a little too closely. At times, her meaning becomes lost in a pile of pop psychobabble, but the overall impressions were very clear (especially Carroll's disturbing fixation with little girls). Especially touching were A.A. Milne's bittersweet descriptions of pride in his adult son Christopher Robin, but at the same time longing to play with his little boy just once more. Such nostalgic, personal pieces make the book is beautiful, but it would be about a hundred times more beautiful if the author had kept the stories a little simpler.

Those Strange Victorians
Victorians are experiencing something of a comeback after decades of censure as the strange, repressed, half-crazy relatives we don't want to tell anyone about. We are discovering that the Victorians were not so different from us.

The Victorians did, however, produce their own brand of eccentricity and none are as delightfully eccentric as the Victorian/Edwardian writers for children discussed in Inventing Wonderland. Jackie Wullschlager starts with that greatest of all Wonderland writers, the master himself Lewis Carroll and ends with Jazz Age Pooh creator A.A. Milne.

The eccentricity of these Victorian writers is their confident, and sometimes troubling, obsession with childhood itself. Wullschlager assures us, correctly, that these writers' obsessions did not cross the line into pedophilic behavior. To 21st century sensibilities this seems scarcely creditable, especially after reading letters by Lewis Carroll to various girl children. Carroll, Lear, Barrie and Grahame's effusions about childhood can only be understood within the context of the Victorian age, the age that produced and adored Wordsworth's overly quoted (then and now) "But trailing clouds of glory do we come/From God, who is our home" (Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood).

Wullschlager is, I think, a bit too dismissive of Milne, who is regarded in the text as a has-been, clinging to the last remnants of the Victorian celebration of childhood. Wullschlager's overall point in this regard, however, is well made. The Victorians invented and took seriously the concept of childhood as a wonderland. Consequently, they produced children's writers of a truly magnificent stature. When the concept of childhood=innocence & pleasure was abandoned, in the early 20th century (thank you, Freud!), the result was an almost tongue-in-cheek parody of the earlier writers. It just wasn't possible to take childhood that seriously anymore.

Writers for children have of course continued to producemasterpieces, largely in the fantasy area, but that particular brand of unself-conscious Victorian nonsense and idyllicism may be lost forever. The Victorians are not as strange to us as we may like to believe, but they are certainly unreproducable.

Recommendation: Interesting, well-written, well-paced. Not the most complete biographical sketches but a complete analysis of biography and art. Give it a try. ... Read more

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For the first time ever, Alice in Wonderland is told in a reader format! Written by Lewis Carroll in 1865, this story remains a well-known classic to this day. It is the tale of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole and meets many extraordinary creatures. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Giu', nella tana del Coniglio Bianco, e via, in un mondo di meraviglie dove incontreremo straordinari personaggi... il Gatto del Cheshire, il Cappellaio Matto, il Bruco, la Regina di Cuori e tante altre creature indimenticabili.
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Nel Paese delle Meraviglie
Era il 4 luglio 1862. Durante una gita in barca sul fiume, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, pastore anglicano nonché insegnante di matematica e logica, raccontò alla piccola Alice Liddell e alle sue due sorelline una storia buffa e curiosa, piena di magia e buffi personaggi, che aveva come protagonisti proprio la stessa Alice, ma anche le sue sorelle, i loro amici, i loro animaletti e tutto il mondo di fiabe e filastrocche che le tre bimbe conoscevano bene. Tre anni dopo, nel 1865, sotto lo pseudonimo di Lewis Carroll, Dodgson pubblicò quel libro, che in breve diventò un classico per i bambini, ma anche per gli adulti: Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie. La storia la conosciamo tutti: seguendo un Coniglio Bianco, che stranamente parla e porta un orologio, la piccola Alice, bimba molto curiosa, cade in una tana e finisce in un mondo stranissimo dove il nonsense e i giochi di parole regnano sovrani, e dove incontrerà straordinari personaggi diventati poi famosissimi, come il bislacco Cappellaio Matto, il Gatto del Cheshire, che sa scomparire lasciando sospeso solo il misterioso sogghigno, e la Regina di Cuori, col suo eterno ordine "tagliategli la testa" (ordine che, sappiamo, non viene mai messo in pratica). Una storia magica e fantastica che è stata riletta poi in film e spettacoli teatrali e che dalla sua uscita non ha mai smesso di incantare bambini di tutte le generazioni e... di tutte le età. ... Read more

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'Lewis Carroll was not the tragic deviant all previousbiographers have assumed him to be. He was not in love with AliceLiddell or obsessed with little girls...The objects of his intensesexual desire were women, full-blooded, 'tall and lithe'. His onetestament of passion is of erotic physical consummation with a matureand powerful woman. In his most private writings, he identifiedhimself with the sin of David, which was not masturbation, or unrulyfantasy, but adultery.....David's Psalm of keening repentance, 'makeme a clean heart oh God', was Dodgson's most frequently-invokedprayer...'

This is the central argument that has made this new biography of LewisCarroll both controversial and enthralling.

It uses new research to show that the long-standing image of LewisCarroll (the pen-name of the author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson): hisexclusively child-centred and unworldly life, his legendary obsessionwith Alice Liddell, and his supposedly unnatural sexuality, are infact nothing more than myths.

With precision and analysis the book traces the development of thisfalse persona and demonstrates how generations of biographers havehelped to create fictions about Lewis Carroll's life, rather thanbring the documentary facts before the public.The dismantling of themyth, and the new image that is put in its place are inevitablycontroversial.Not everyone will be able to accept its conclusions,but the amount of new original research it contains means it is animmensely significant book, and one that anyone who has any interestin Lewis Carroll and his work, probably ought to have read.

With its careful analysis, and its Gothic tale of cut pages, death bedconfessions and hidden secrets, it is both an important scholasticwork, and a book for anyone who enjoys an historical detective story. ... Read more

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a 'challenging' view of a legend
This book searches for the 'real truth' about Charles Dodgson, and seeing all the reviews here on Amazon it seems you either love or hate what Karoline Leach has to say abouth the "Carroll Myth".Personally, I've read the book numerous times, and found good things in it.

Don't bother paying the ridiculously high prices for used copies of the book!It's being reprinted by the original publisher(Peter Owen Publishers;located in London,UK).It will be released sometime in mid January of 2009(in paperback format),and with revised and updated material.

What an Embarrassment!!!
I cannot believe that many take this book seriously when it is based on such scanty. flimsy "evidence" which calls for HUGE assumptions by the author. You also don't write a historical theses by picking and choosing what facts to include or ignore. I will now, in a very short comment, blow her thesis out of the water....Nothing in the diary page that Ms. Leach quotes from proves anything, and is greatly taken out of context. She totally ignores more obvious evidence to the contrary, other letters, diary entries, and the words of Carroll himself! While it is nice that she jumps off the Carroll as pedophile band-wagon, it is not enough to, under the guise of scholarship, make so much from so little...

While many people in Oxford thought Carroll's attentions to be for the governess, this was understandable because to think of a grown Oxford don in love with the Dean's daughter was more far fetched.

However, Mrs. Liddell and Carroll himself didn't think so....

Carroll in his later diaries mentioned a long talk with Mrs. Liddell after Alice's marriage, where he admits to his "foolish" ways (toward Alice) in the past, and his subsequent estrangement from the Deanery. During that talk, Mrs. Liddell forgives him. (note: that with Alice's marriage, she didn't view Carroll as the "threat" he once was)

Ina, Alice's sister in letters to Alice before her death , mentions that she always thought Dodgson was in love with her sister, and when Alice denies this, Ina points out the many times she had been sitting inappropriately on Dodgson's lap and alludes to other incidents.

Then, there is the letter to Carroll's uncle, where he is upset at the news that his brother wants to marry 14 year old Alice Jane Donkin.
Carroll alludes to the similar problems he himself had gone through with "AL"..now..who could THAT be??

And why DID Alice's mother burn all of Carroll's letter to her daughter?

Because of his love for the governess?

I think not.

While it is certain that Dodgson was not the shy recluse, and had many adult friends including women, and did remain loyal to his girl friends even after they grew up.... a man who spent his time, money, and most of his life devoted to his child-friends is clearly not using it as a smoke screen to meet adult women.

If anyone still has doubts about Carroll's love and devotion to Alice, one just has to re-read the framing poems of the two Alice books again.

In Through the Looking Glass, published a few years after his falling out with the Liddell family, he wrote:
"Still she haunts me phantom wise, Alice moving under skys..never seen by waking eyes...

Yeah, he was in love with the governess all right!!!!

Great for Carroll fans to round out their views of the man
This important and detailed study of the new data about Charles Dodson and his alter ego Lewis Carroll shows that much that has been assumed about the man and his private life is as much a fantasy as the Alice's books. Relevant and adequate evidence from the letters, diary, and contemporary writings, now shows that Lewis Carroll was pretty much a normal, healthy adult person with a normal health social and private life. True, Dodson did have an affection for little girls, especially a little girl named Alice Pleasance Liddell (rhymes with little), but he also liked boys and men and photographed many of them. And in his later years he loved women, many, many adult women, perhaps, as Leach pointed out, too many. Although Karoline Leach, well-loved and well known British actress, appears to contradict the view of Carroll expressed by Cohen in Cohen's book which has now become the (gold) standard biography of Carroll, both are probably correct. At Oxford and in his early years, Carroll concerned himself more with children and later in London and at the beach he concerned himself with adult women. At both times in his life, Mrs. Grundy objected. Yet, Carroll was clear in his own conscience and nowhere is there the slightest piece of evidence that he did anything wrong by modern cultural standards. Oh yes, one of the main things I enjoyed about Leach's book, is the clear presentation of what it was like at Oxford during the time that Carroll was a student there. The boys with noble titles wore gold tassels and dined at the high table. Commoners worn black tassels and dined in the commons. No one could matriculate at Oxford unless they signed off on the 39 principles of the Church of England and therefore only those who were adherent to the state religion had a go at an Oxford degree. Also interesting is the amount of wealth controlled by the clergy and the penchant they had for distributing two-thirds of the income from the vast estates held by the church to (who else?) themselves. The nepotism within the church is too appalling to discuss. For good reasons, America's founders decided on strict separation of church and state.

see Tryst!!
If you enjoyed this author's writings, and you live in New York, I URGE you to buy tickets to TRYST, now playing at the Promedade Theatre. She has composed a brilliant, lyrical, bitter, honest, and ultimately surprising bit of period drama. The story is masterfully directed and acted by it's two-person cast, but the real star is the writing. It felt strange to applaude the actors alone, as I wanted to contratulate the play-write! I thought I had it all figured out by the end of act one, only to find myself on the edge of my seat all through act two as the characters unravel. See her play, Tryst, at the Promenade Theatre. It is not to be missed!

flawed but still groundbreaking
This book fundamentally changes the way we will all think about Carroll in the future. It's flawed - the biggest failure being its attempt to suggest an alternate explanation for eventswhen leaving the questions unanswered would have been better.But even so it is powerful, cogent and flawlessly argued. It examines Carroll's entire biographical history and shows how,the biographers themselves have built on each other's mistakes and fantasies to create an almost entirely bogus image.The story is hugely entertaining and a terrible indictment of biogaphers everywhere!

Read it. If you love Carroll, Alice, history or biography, read it and prepare to be amused, amazed and informed
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Featuring 130 illustrations, nearly one hundred of them in color, a look into the mind of the creator of Alice in Wonderland recounts the life of the mathematician-turned-writer and explores the enduring allure of his story. Original." ... Read more

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Delightful 'train book' for the Wonderland lover
I mention the 'train book' aspect because this book is just the size to tuck into a handbag. As one who loves Lewis Carroll's works, and has studied Victorian England in depth, I found this work to be a surprisingly rich, delightful treatment of Lewis Carroll's life and work.

It is not an in-depth study of all aspects of his life, and, somehow, I found it most refreshing that, unlike some books which are, there were no diversions into Freudian speculation or treatments of bizarre theories about Dodgson's ways. Instead, the reader is treated to a fairly thorough survey of biographical information and essentials of Lewis Carroll's writings.

The illustrations are exceptionally extensive, including many photographs (of or by Carroll), varied illustrations from editions of "Alice," and, as far as textual illustrations are concerned, excerpts from Dodgson's private correspondence and diaries. One comes to the end of the book with a sense of having covered an amazingly large scope. For example, other authors have mentioned (without showing) the supposedly notorious nude photographs of children which Dodgson prepared. This book not only includes the pictures (which tend to the cherubic, with no flavour of the erotic), but places them into the Victorian cultural perspective with taste and dignity.

The author's style is superb - with a blend of beautiful language, concise but thorough treatment of the material, and impressive dignity. There is none of the excesses common in many books on Lewis Carroll, where rash speculation and prurient "let's pander to the 21st century love for 'dirt'" ruin the essentials of the story. Lewis Carroll is presented in all his brilliance, humour, and eccentricity. The classic works, with all of their fancy, wit, and wonder, are not ruined by excessive analysis or so filled with 'dark' speculation that one forgets what every child can see: they are delightful diversions.

Pair this book with an annotated edition of Lewis Carroll's works, and you will have the perfect gift for anyone who has ever loved "Alice" and her creator. And creator indeed Carroll was, for, as this book shows well, the Alice of fiction was hardly a model of Alice Liddell. The author speaks in some detail of the relationship of the "real" Alice and Charles Dodgson, with no tired attempts to confuse them with the book's contents. As well, the references to other Victorian literature and art places Carroll's work, and the friendship with the Liddell family, in an enlightening perspective for the contomporary reader.

Witty, insightful, and extensively detailed for a pocket book, I would highly recommend this work for anyone who already loves Lewis Carroll or would like a further acquaintance.

Good for Carroll Fans
I hardly ever buy nonfiction but seeing this at Borders I knew I had to have it. Lewis Carrol is one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, surpassing even Tolstoy,Dostoevsky,and Dickens. I have a completecollection of all of his works and enjoy them all(except for the mathpuzzles, math has never been my strongest point.) If you are a fan of LewisCarroll then this is the book for you. Gorgous illustrations andphotographs, an interesting and informative text, this is a wonderfullittle book to own. It is also informative if you are interested inVictorian England such as Iam (probably due to my Lewis Carroll fixation)There are also examples of Lewis Carrolls photography and pictures of theLiddle children. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves the worldof Alice and who is obsessed with Mr. Dodgson's books.

Exceptional!
A small in size book, being about 5 x 6.It is printed on glossy paper with many photographs.It is an exceptional buy for the amount of money tendered.If you read anything by Mr. Carroll you have to have this booktoo.Mr. Carroll's work is a must for anyone writing anything.The simpletruth is his writing means nothingas far as plot, but his style isbrilliant.

Is there anyone out there that knows what the name of thewriting style used by Mr. Carroll.For instance his characters are tellinga story to someonesmallMr. Carroll aims his text at a small animal. The small animal answers back in small type.When someone is running andtalking, there are long drawn out sentences.

Content and presentation are excellent.
This book provides a well written description of the conditions and environment that led to the writing of the Alice books. The reader is immersed in Victorian culture both verbally and visually. The profuselyillustrated book is a joy to read and informative as well. It fills theniche between biography and textual analysis.

Joel Birenbaum, presidentof the Lewis Carroll Society of North America

A nice, simple introduction to the world of Lewis Carroll
This tidy, colorful book presents an evenly balanced look at the life andtimes of Lewis Carroll. The reproductions of rare photos are outstanding,and are cause enough to buy the book on it's own. The text aviods theloathesome practice of trying to find deep symbolism and imagery inCarroll's works, but rather focuses on them with a pleasant reverence. ... Read more

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You've never seen Alice like this before! Acclaimed artist J. Otto Seibold---the creator of Olive, The Other Reindeer---brings readers a fantastical Wonderland filled with surprises. Lewis Carroll's classic tale of magic and discovery comes to life in this pop-up extravaganza. Readers are invited to follow Alice on her journey, down the rabbit hole and through Wonderland, to meet all the colorful characters she encounters along the way. This exceptional interactive feast offers Alice fans of every age an unforgettable glimpse into the adventure and wild fun that is Wonderland. ... Read more

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Visually entrancing
I bought this book new and dirt cheap when my twin girls were born and they are now a few months past 3 and we have had this book out a couple of times and they love it and will ask for it and will beg to pull the tabs, openning the oven, making Alice kick, making the Cheshire Cat disappear, making the flamingo hit the hedgehog, and so on.The girls can recognize the "Alice in Wonderland" general story lines in this book which is good, and the pop up and classic Seibold artwork keep them enthralled, but this book is best for a Seibold lover, an older child, or the Alice enthusiast/collector.In true Seibold from the written words can often be very difficult to read even for an adult, there is no good transition from scenario to scenario in the book, and the pull tabs et al unless you want the book destroyed are best operated by an adult or older child.If it were not for these three things I'd have given it a 5 star plus rating.

A Must for Alice Fans!!
J. Otto Seibold has a wonderful style - I recommend all of his children's books. The Alice Pop Up has some wonderful interactive pages - including a disappearing Cheshire Cat. The pop up of the caterpillar on the mushroom is probably my favorite. You can't possibly be disappointed by this book!

Hmmm...more for older kids & adults.
I found this in mint condition in a used bookstore for 5 dollars, and bought it thinking my toddler would like the pop-up features. Only upon actually reading it, did I discover that the way the story is written is not very kid-friendly, and some of the illustrations and pop-up features are really pretty weird & surreal. The only feature my little one loved was the pull-down tab that covers the entire cheshire cat except its smile [ok, I loved it too!].But as an adult, I enjoyed the book, and it is definitely a unique take on Lewis Carroll's classic tale...there is definitely something of the wonderland in this book!

A little too mature for young audiences
This book is really too mature for young kids.I gave it to my 5 year old niece for her birthday, and while I was reading it I regretted giving it to her because I had to change some of the phrases (as I was reading) to make them more kid-friendly.If my sister ever reads it aloud to her young daughter, she'll probably be miffed with me for giving it as a gift.

Great Illustrations
J.Otto's illustrations are incredibly amazing!!!! Besides I think this pop-up book really reflects Alice in wonderland's world. It has a lot of different types of pop-ups, and tiny details which make the difference such as a book on the first page that can be opened and has actual pages inside. Everything unfolds, hides or something.
I actually bought this book twice, the first one was for me and I found it so great that I bought a second copy to give as a gift.
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Alice in Wonderland
This is the original story by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by John Tenniel, of how Alice fell down the rabbit hole. She falls asleep in the lap of her sister and has a most excellent adventure. Read the book. I'm not going to tell the story here.

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