Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: Colour Illustrations

ISBN-13: 9781909621589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str.

Carroll Lewis

Opis

This edition of a favorite and much-loved title, previously illustrated in black and white, presents the illustrations in full color throughout. Original illustrations are faithfully reproduced, and have been sensitively colored by Barbara Frith, one of Britain's most accomplished colourists. When Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit she finds herself in Wonderland. Wonderland is no ordinary place and the characters that populate it are quite unlike anybody young Alice has ever met. Through the Looking-Glass continues her bizarre adventures, and she meets more outlandish creations including the Red and the White Queens, Humpty Dumpty and the White Knight. Sir John Tenniel's magical illustrations have been delicately colored by Barbara Frith.Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Recenzje

I revelled in all the logical games, and the wordplay. It made me laugh till my sides hurt Richard Cohen Independent

O autorze

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.