Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mathew Staunton

Publisher Marketing: Lewis Carroll is a pen-name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the author's real name and he was lecturer in Mathematics in Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson began the story on 4 July 1862, when he took a journey in a rowing boat on the river Thames in Oxford together with the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, with Alice Liddell (ten years of age) the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and with her two sisters, Lorina (thirteen years of age), and Edith (eight years of age). As is clear from the poem at the beginning of the book, the three girls asked Dodgson for a story and reluctantly at first he began to tell the first version of the story to them. There are many half-hidden references made to the five of them throughout the text of the book itself, which was published finally in 1865. The text for this edition makes some alterations to Lewis Carroll's final revised text in order to correct some inconsistencies which remained, or which appear to have been introduced, by Carroll in 1897. In the Evertype definitive text the aim has been to establish (or re-establish) clarity and consistency where it was lacking, while conserving the idiosyncrasies of Carroll's writing which have delighted readers for a century and a half. The playful and fresh illustrations in this volume were prepared by Mathew Staunton, on the basis of very personal mental images of Alice and the different characters she meets which developed when he first read the book many years ago, and were inspired in part by his daughter Aoife, who acted as model for the book." 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*Starred Review Booklist 01/01/2000 pg. 922 (EAN 9780763608040, Hardcover) School Library Journal 01/01/2000 pg. 93 (EAN 9780763608040, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1999 pg. 75 (EAN 9780763608040, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 436 (EAN 9780763608040, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2000 pg. 75 (EAN 9780763608040, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 643 (EAN 9780763608040, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 963 (EAN 9780763608040, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1991 (EAN 9780553053852, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 11/24/1989 (EAN 9780553053852, Hardcover) School Library Journal 05/01/1990 (EAN 9780553053852, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 462 (EAN 9780517659618, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 519 (EAN 9780517659618, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 519 (EAN 9780517124208, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 462 (EAN 9780394905921, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 462 (EAN 9780394805924, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 09/30/1988 (EAN 9780394805924, Hardcover) School Library Journal 11/01/1988 (EAN 9780394805924, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 462 (EAN 9780394532271, Hardcover) Foreword 02/19/2011 (EAN 9780889843394, Paperback) Booklist Editors Choice/Media 01/01/2011 pg. 16 (EAN 9781742147130, Compact Disc) Booklist 04/01/1999 pg. 1412 (EAN 9780525460947, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1999 pg. 289 (EAN 9780525460947, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1999 pg. 289 (EAN 9780525460947, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 462 (EAN 9780312018214, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 519 (EAN 9780312018214, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 436 (EAN 9780312018214, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 02/22/2010 pg. 60 (EAN 9781602836600, Compact Disc) Contributor Bio:  Carroll, Lewis Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and a photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems 'The Hunting of the Snark' and 'Jabberwocky, ' all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy.