Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Many movies and theatrical adaptations have been made taking this book as inspiration, where Wonderland is a place where dreams come true and fantasy is present in everyday life. This novel triggers the imagination of children, while leaving readers interested, excited and impatient.
152 páginas. Rústica con solapas. 15 x 21,6 cm. Drakul.
Synopsis
Alice falls down a rabbit hole and enters a magical dream world populated by surreal, weird and wonderful people and animals.
Biography of the author
Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898), was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense.
Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher. Alice Liddell, the daughter of Christ Church's dean Henry Liddell, is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this.
An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle which he published in his weekly column for Vanity Fair magazine between 1879 and 1881. In 1982 a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works.