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    Alice in Wonderland - Illustrated by Frank Adams
    Alice in Wonderland - Illustrated by Frank Adams
    Alice in Wonderland - Illustrated by Frank Adams
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    Alice in Wonderland - Illustrated by Frank Adams

    By Lewis Carroll and Frank Adams

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    ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898), better known by his pen name, ‘Lewis Carroll’. Telling the tale of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by surreal and anthropomorphic creatures, the book was a huge commercial success on its initial publication in 1865. It was followed by its sequel, ‘Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’, in 1871. The books play at the heart of logical problems and literary nonsense – giving the narrative lasting popularity with adults and children alike.

    Originally published in 1912, this edition of the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ story is accompanied by the intricate and beautifully coloured illustrations of Frank Adams – a lesser known, though immensely skilled Golden Age illustrator. Adams (1871 – 1944), established himself as a children’s illustrator in the early 1900s, with the crisp and clean images he later became famous for. Presented alongside the text, his illustrations further refine and enhance Lewis Carroll’s masterful storytelling.

    Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s classics and fairy tales – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 10, 2014
    ISBN9781473393950
    Alice in Wonderland - Illustrated by Frank Adams
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    Lewis Carroll

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. He is especially remembered for bringing to life the beloved and long-revered tale of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

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    • 5/5
      Many of the reviews on this site do not relate to the Salvador Dali illustrated book, but rather to another illustrator. Very Confusing.I love Alice's imaginative adventures and her increasing confidence as she accepts her changing size and bizarre circumstances.Yet, just as I did not enjoy the treatment of animals in a cruel way - the flamingoes, hedgehogs, guinea pigs - when I first read the book as a child and, although I was happy with the final resolution of the Queen and her deck of cards, the constant "Off with their heads!" was and is still annoying.Dali's paintings remain dramatic and an eternal evocative mystery. So good that this book has come to all of us!
    • 4/5
      I plan to read Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy and thought it might be interesting to reread the book, this time in French. >My first observation was that the translator did a good job and most of the book was translated well - at least to the limits of my memory. Then I did notice some shortcomings, for instance the wordplay in the mouse poem relating the mouse's tail to the tale being told just didn't work in French. However, the translator did include good footnotes. Here, he explained differences in the French and English version. He also added some historical notes that I found added value to the story. This included some symbology that I was completely unaware of. Some of the jokes and puns were, if my memory serves, and perhaps were replaced with new or similar ones taking advantage of the language differences.Overall, it is a quick read, delightful and imaginative and well worth some time spent.
    • 4/5
      Delightfully fun, whimsically amusing and what an imagination! Between the outlandish characters, the silly puns and the play with logic, it is easy to see how this book is such a great story for both children and adults. Obviously, a reader needs to love - or at least appreciate - the nonsensical fun to fully enjoy this story, especially given the caricatures and the mayhem that is Wonderland. I can see where some adult readers may revisit this one for nostalgic childhood reasons, but I think I probably appreciate the story more as a adult reader, than I would have reading it as a young girl. Overall, very happy to have finally read this children's classic.
    • 3/5
      Classic story that I love to read even more than watching the movie so I can picture things the way I want and give the characters their voices. A must read for all children.
    • 4/5
      This edition contains both "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" and "Through The Looking-glass" As with the general understanding of the two stories is mainly presented to today's culture through the Disney's animated classic, most people know of both these stories. Upon reading them both, I noticed the elements that were used from each of them. A majority of it was obviously from "Alice's Adventures" with only some pieces from "Looking-glass" added.
      In my opinion "Alice's Adventures" was much more enjoyable when I read it. I enjoyed the poetic elements in "Looking-glass" but for overall likability, I side with "Alice's Adventures"
    • 1/5
      I didn't enjoy this at all, and I wonder how this book became such a cultural icon. I found Alice and the other characters to be annoying, the adventures she got into boring, the language odd and dated. I think I missed my window (childhood) for reading this.
    • 4/5
      I really need to go buy the t-shirt that says “The book was better”. (see thinkgeek.com) When I was exposed to Disney cartoon movies (later in age than most), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland always confused me. I couldn’t understand all the wonderment and fantasy; my brain wasn’t wired to appreciate it. Oddly, now that I’ve read the book for the FIRST time in my (much) later years, I suddenly understand AAiW. AAiW is just about a kid being a kid. Not trying to survive evil somebody, not being hunted, not on a forced adventure. She dreamt/wandered into this adventure out of boredom, and we go on this silly journey with her. There’s a touch of brattiness, and that’s exactly the way it should be. Is it meant to be processed and understood in the traditional sense? I doubt it. Are there hidden lessons? (or morals, morals, morals – hint, read the book) Well, Alice learned to plan ahead (keep the mushroom pieces with her), to walk away from situations that don’t treat her properly (Mad Hatter’s Tea Party), and to recognize her strength (multiple times, most notably when she became the biggest and was no longer afraid of the Queen).Written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a distinguished scholar and mathematician under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, we are treated to simple word play fun of lessons that lessen and tortoise vs. taught us. Of course, need to pay homage to the “different branches of Arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision”. Now, what exactly does that mean? Damn, I’m being an adult again. Stop it! :) A quick comment about the book version:I have the inexpensive Dover Thrift Edition which has the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel that accompanied the book during its first publication in 1865. Highly recommend any edition with these illustrations.One Quote:In words or in the movies, this is amusing:“The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing; and, when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in act of crawling away…”
    • 5/5
      Read in Nov. 2013 for the umpteenth time! Amazing. Downloaded for free.
    • 3/5
      What is now called family entertainment, the story follows the young girl through fantastic episodes, with every magical element described.
    • 5/5
      Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Arthur Dobson, a gentlemen reputed to like VERY little girls and who woiuld probably be photographed and put among the "unclean" today. This is arguably the most imaginative childhood story ever written that does not involve violence (the Red Queen is no exception! She yells off with their heads" a lot, but note she never actually does it.
    • 3/5
      I should have read this at an earlier age. As it was, I enjoyed this most just after waking, or sometime before my first cup of coffee. You know how it is. After a cup of coffee, you start to want things to make sense.
    • 3/5
      My review in this case applies to a very specific edition, that being the Bloomsbury edition with illustrations by Mervyn Peake. The illustrations are certainly significant to the overall experience of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, since Carroll even refers specifically to one of the illustrations in his text.The Mervyn Peake drawings are something quite different than the much more familiar work of Sir John Tenniel. The work of the latter was included in the original edition of Alice, and is still found in most modern printings. So Peake faces a huge uphill battle right there, trying to compete with something that is practically integral to the text for many readers.In the main, I'd have to say that Peake fails to meet that challenge. What I find least satisfying in Peake's admittedly elegant line drawing is his rather light-hearted approach to the subject matter. The more familiar pictures by Tenniel bring a dark, and even mildly sinister, mood to the proceedings. This evocation of a specific mood offers a strong and original interpretation of the text as well as a unifying thematic sense that logically binds all of Tenniel's illustrations into an immensely satisfying whole. Peake's strategy is to stick a little closer to the tone of Carroll's words, which actually seems like a bad idea, since the cuteness and inner lightness of the narrative fails to find any interpretive resonance in Peake's drawings - he's illustrating just what we're reading, with little flair or imagination. Tenniel made what seems to me to be a much smarter move, by extending a piece of the narrative thread in a direction that may be darker than Carroll really had in mind (I can't know for sure). This gives the Tenniel illustrations a life of their own that significantly enhances the experience that the reader derives from the words themselves, and provides for a fuller and richer experience of the overall text. Reading an edition of Alice illustrated by Mervyn Peake simply makes one realize how truly amazing Tenniel's more familiar work is, and how entirely appropriate and indispensable his vision of Wonderland is.
    • 1/5
      It's a classic. I feel that I should like it, but I just don't.
    • 3/5
      Strange, but interesting. I was not as profoundly moved as I thought I was going to be.
    • 3/5
      I didn't much enjoy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland while I read it (except for the court scene with the King's ridiculous directives; TV shows like Boston Legal are straight out of here!). I especially disliked that Carroll painted himself into corners numerous times and only got out by pulling a new topic out of thin air. And the ending’s device is a frustrating cop-out.Yet, afterward, the story is growing on me. I’m glad to have finally experienced the origins of so many cultural references: the rabbit hole; “Drink Me”/”Eat Me”; the Mad Hatter; the Queen and Knave of Hearts; the rhymes. I suppose, being as logical a thinker as Alice, that I reacted to Wonderland exactly as she did: thinking it was curious, confusing, and frustratingly nonsensical. So, actually, Carroll did an excellent job of putting me there!The book absolutely lends itself to being read aloud -- and with much drama. I think an adult reader would get very much more by delving into an annotated edition.
    • 5/5
      Summary: Classic storytale of Alice as she travels through Wonderland and has great adventures. This story is of a little girl who is bored and falls asleep only to dream of following a rabbit down his hole and into a magical world of make-believe. Review: This story is a fairy tale and has all the classic marks of one: talking animals, the rules of science and nature being bendable if not all together breakable, and all of her adventure happening during a dream. The particular book I own has 42 wonderful ink illustrations by John Tenniel. It is the oldest book I own and I believe the story is still very relevant in children's literature. The best part of my book is the inscription: "Happy Christmas - To Little Hattie, December 25th, 1895. From Mrs. Flora Feige".
    • 4/5
      I don't feel like the modern illustration fits with the classic work for some reason. Otherwise the images are beautifully done.
    • 5/5
      Alice is one of my favorite works of all times. I found the book profoundly influential as a child, providing as it did a entry into the world of Victorian literature and history, to say nothing of the sheer delight and humor of the piece.
    • 5/5
      the well loved story, i like it now as much as i did way back then
    • 4/5
      "Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?"Through the Looking Glass is much better, but you'd have to be an unfeeling clod to not like Alice in Wonderland. Or perhaps have had unfeeling clods for parents who didn't introduce you to Alice before you were old enough to think the puns were a little overboard.
    • 5/5
      Swift-moving, extremely funny, and pretty much unique (aside from the second one). Gleefully absurd, always inches away from flying off the handle, which it would do if the handle didn't fly off first.
    • 4/5
      Written as if the writer is on an acid trip, this book is wonderful and frightening at the same time. Rereading it as an adult has made me realize why I was so scared as a child. Alice, The White Rabbit, The Red Queen, The Mad Hatter....all these characters come to life in great detail and description. I would recomend this to anyone who has seen the many movies made. It's strange, wonderful and fun all in one.
    • 3/5
      There really is a lot of nonsense in this.
    • 4/5
      It's hard to review 2 books at once. I loved the first book. But I was not impressed with the second. Like many, I've been spoiled by movies so I was very disappointed to find out the Jabberwocky was just a poem. I was also surprised at how young Alice truly is in the books. All-in-all was an interesting read.
    • 4/5
      Okay, so we all know this story, most of us know it very well. It's an absurd children's book, and as I listened, I kept thinking about how much my preschool aged granddaughters would love the overall silliness of this classic.

      I listened to the new Audible production performed by Scarlett Johannson. I was very impressed with her ability to change voices, which was so extreme, I wondered how much of it was done in post-production. If it is all her, with no electronic modification, I'm very impressed. Movie directors should be able to utilize her voice skills for so many characters.

      At any rate, the rating is primarily from the performance. Surprisingly, I am not a fan of the story at all (I'm not a fan of absurdist literature - it's like bizarro books today: completely senseless). Oh well, to each his own.

      I'd recommend this for people who enjoy classic children's literature and for those who enjoy hearing a book skillfully read.
    • 2/5
      Ugh, I hate nonsense books. I get that this is for kids and the whole premise is fun nonsense. When Alice falls asleep she goes down into a rabbit hole and enters Wonderland, a place where everything is fun and nonsense. There is no point to anything and everyone is weird and can you tell how much I dislike this book. There is no plot, just a dumb kid named Alice, wandering around Wonderland talking to animals and packs of cards, playing croquet with flamingos and the like. Totally bonkers.
    • 2/5
      The problem is this particular edition (Bookbyte digital), which is not complete, and does not include the introductory poems.
    • 3/5
      A good way to introduce a child to the idea that words and sentences can have multiple meaning depending upon the context. A sort of point-of-view pontification.
    • 5/5
      Great Illustration
    • 5/5
      This story tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world.She met lots of strange crature,and taught them lots of interesting things.But shi also learned some things from these people.Maybe you feel that it just belongs to fairy tale,and for children only.However,as a part of young people,i think this story is excellent.I gained much imagination from it,i found the way of making our lives become more meaningful.As a result,you won't miss it if you are the person who love the life.

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    Alice in Wonderland - Illustrated by Frank Adams - Lewis Carroll

    ALICE’S ADVENTURES

    IN WONDERLAND

    CHAPTER I

    DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE

    ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do. Once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures in it, and what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures?

    So she was thinking in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid) whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

    There was nothing so very remarkable in that. Nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late! (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural). But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and, being very curious, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

    In another moment down went Alice after it, never once thinking how in the world she was to get out again.

    The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.

    Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her, and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything. Then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves. Here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed. It was labelled ORANGE MARMALADE, but to her great disappointment it was empty. She did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

    Well! thought Alice to herself. After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they’ll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house! (Which was very likely true.)

    Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time? she said aloud. I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think— (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good chance of showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) —yes, that’s about the right distance—but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to? (Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)

    Presently she began again. "I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The Antipathies, I think—" (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) —but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia? (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke—fancy curtseying as you’re falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) And what an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do to ask. Perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.

    Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. Dinah’ll miss me very much to-night, I should think! (Dinah was the cat.) I hope they’ll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear, I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that’s very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder? And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats? and sometimes, Do bats eat cats? for, you see, as she couldn’t answer either question, it didn’t much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, Now, Dinah, tell me the truth. Did you ever eat a bat? when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.

    Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment. She looked up, but it was all dark overhead. Before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost. Away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting! She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen. She found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.

    There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked. And when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again.

    Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass. There was nothing on it but a tiny golden key, and Alice’s first idea was that this might belong to one of the doors of the hall. But, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high. She tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!

    Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole. She knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway. And even if my head would go through, thought poor Alice, "it would be of very little use without

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