Alice Through the Looking-Glass: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic (Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics) - Hardcover

Carroll, Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0957148399 ISBN 13: 9780957148390

Publisher: Welbeck Editions, 2015

Synopsis

More than 70 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen complement the complete and unabridged text in this edition published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's first Alice book in November 1865

When Alice steps through the looking-glass in the drawing room one drowsy winter afternoon, she finds herself in a peculiar, topsy-turvy world where chess pieces walk about, flowers talk, and nothing is quite as it seems. Alice is caught up in a bizarre chess game and encounters some rather eccentric characters--including the argumentative Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, the nonsensical White Queen, and the quick-tempered Red Queen. The story features the poems, "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and "Jabberwocky," which have become just as well known as Alice's adventures themselves. The award-winning artist Robert Ingpen has illustrated Lewis Carroll's enchanting sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in this sumptuous volume. Full of anarchic humour, witty rhymes, and sparkling word play, it will delight new readers and devoted Alice fans alike.

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Review:

"Lewis Carroll, we could say, created the whole of children's literature with these wonderful stories. Placing a child at the centre of a narrative that was entirely free of instruction, entirely devoted to delight, was a stroke of genius. The Alices are the greatest nonsense ever written, and far greater, in my view, than most sense."--Philip Pullman, author, His Dark Materials trilogy

Book Description:

Follow Alice through the looking glass as she sets off on her second adventure in Tony Ross' brilliantly illustrated Wonderland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Welbeck Editions
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0957148399
• ISBN 13: 9780957148390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Illustrator: Ingpen Robert