The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - Hardcover

Carroll, Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447275993 ISBN 13: 9781447275992

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, 2015

Synopsis

The Complete Alice, including both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, is the ultimate edition of Lewis Carroll's much-loved classic, from the original publisher, Macmillan. Packed full of amazing exclusive extra features from the Macmillan archive and a foreword by Philip Pullman, The Complete Alice also has a glorious die-cut cover with intricate embossed two foil detail, head and tail bands, red foiled edges and a ribbon marker - all making this a gift edition to treasure forever.

Lewis Carroll's Alice has been enchanting children for 150 years. Curious Alice, the bossy White Rabbit, the formidable Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter are among the best loved, most iconic literary creations of all time.

Macmillan was the original publisher of Alice in 1865 and is proud to remain true to the vision of its creators. This stunning anniversary treasury reproduces every word of Carroll's masterpiece and its equally famous sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. The dreamlike illustrations, colour versions of Sir John Tenniel's originals, were produced in 1911 by celebrated artist Harry Theaker, under the direction of Tenniel himself, and the series completed by contemporary watercolourist Diz Wallis.

Curiouser and curiouser! Lively and authoritative non-fiction content draws on Macmillan's rich historical archive to tell the real-life story of how Alice was written and published, making this a perfect gift for fans of Alice young and old.

About this title

Book Description:

The definitive full-colour edition celebrating 150 years of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

About the Author:

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted and entranced children for over a hundred years. Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he studied at Christ Church College, Oxford where he became a mathematics lecturer. The Alice stories were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of his college

Sir John Tenniel (1820 –1914) was a Victorian topical cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator. He is best remembered today for his work in ALICE’S ADVENTURES THROUGH WONDERLAND and ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1447275993
• ISBN 13: 9781447275992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480
• Illustrator: John Tenniel Sir