The Making Of Lewis Carroll S Alice And The Invention Of Wonderland

Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 1851245324

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The Making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the Invention of Wonderland by Peter Hunt Pdf

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass' are two of the most famous, translated and quoted books in the world. But how did a casual tale told by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), an eccentric Oxford mathematician, to Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, grow into such a phenomenon?Peter Hunt cuts away the psychological speculation that has grown up around the 'Alice' books and traces the sources of their multi-layered in-jokes and political, literary and philosophical satire. He first places the books in the history of children's literature - how they relate to the other giants of the period, such as Charles Kingsley - and explores the local and personal references that the real Alice would have understood. Equally fascinating is the rich texture of fragments of everything from the 'sensation' novel to Darwinian theory - not to mention Dodgson's personal feelings - that he wove into the books as they developed.Richly illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, Sir John Tenniel's original line drawings and contemporary photographs, this is a fresh look at two remarkable stories, which takes us on a guided tour from the treacle wells of Victorian Oxford through an astonishing world of politics, philosophy, humour - and nightmare.

Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674970762

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The Story of Alice by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Pdf

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll’s imaginative creation of Wonderland—a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781877527814

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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pdf

Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.

Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199753345

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The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester Pdf

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless speculation--as the vehicle for a brief excursion behind the lens, a focal point on the origins of a classic work of English literature. Dodgson's love of photography framed his view of the world, and was partly responsible for transforming a shy and half-deaf mathematician into one of the world's best-loved observers of childhood. Little wonder that there is more to "Alice Liddell as the Beggar Maid" than meets the eye. Using Dodgson's published writings, private diaries, and of course his photographic portraits, Winchester gently exposes the development of Lewis Carroll and the making of his Alice. Acclaim for Simon Winchester "An exceptionally engaging guide at home everywhere, ready for anything, full of gusto and seemingly omnivorous curiosity." --Pico Iyer, The New York Times Book Review "A master at telling a complex story compellingly and lucidly." --USA Today "Extraordinarily graceful." --Time "Winchester is an exquisite writer and a deft anecdoteur." --Christopher Buckley "A lyrical writer and an indefatigable researcher." --Newsweek

Author : Catherine Nichols
Publisher : Race Point Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781627885010

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Alice's Wonderland by Catherine Nichols Pdf

Alice's Wonderland dives down the rabbit hole and looks at the dazzling ways that Wonderland has been imagined by artists, filmmakers, writers, and more. Get a behind-the-scenes looks at how the books were created, meet Alice Liddell, the inspiration for the fictional Alice, and view the original manuscript copy of Alice in Wonderland, illustrated in Carroll's own hand. The fantastical world imagined by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) - where a white rabbit carries a pocket watch, a crying baby morphs into a squealing pig, and a flamingo is used as a croquet mallet - has inspired countless artists to produce some of their best work. Illustrators such as John Tenniel, chose to tackle the work directly, producing illustrations, films, and shows that strive to accurately depict Wonderland. Others, such as artist Salvador Dali and director Tim Burton, freely adapted Dodgson's creation, using it as a springboard for their own incredible interpretations. Lushly illustrated paintings, artwork, and sketches, Alice's Wonderland explores how artists in different fields like art, music, theater, film, and more have interpreted Carroll's works through the ages. A must-have book for any Alice fan.

Author : Zoe Jaques,Eugene Giddens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317105510

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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Zoe Jaques,Eugene Giddens Pdf

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed and nuanced account of the initial publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and investigate how their subsequent transformations through print, illustration, film, song, music videos, and even stamp-cases and biscuit tins affected the reception of these childhood favourites. The authors consider issues related to the orality of the original tale and its impact on subsequent transmission, the differences between the manuscripts and printed editions, and the politics of writing and publishing for children in the 1860s. In addition, they take account of Carroll's own responses to the books' popularity, including his writing of major adaptations and a significant body of meta-textual commentary, and his reactions to the staging of Alice in Wonderland. Attentive to the child reader, how changing notions of childhood identity and needs affected shifting narratives of the story, and the representation of the child's body by various illustrators, the authors also make a significant contribution to childhood studies.

Author : Catherine Nichols
Publisher : Race Point Pub
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781937994976

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Alice's Wonderland by Catherine Nichols Pdf

Presents a history of Alice's adventures in Wonderland, discussing works that were inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic tale.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547528333

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Alice's Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll Pdf

"Alice's Adventures Under Ground" by Lewis Carroll. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553213454

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pdf

A young girl enters two bizarre worlds by following a white rabbit down a rabbit hole and moving through the mirror on the mantel.

Author : David Day
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780385682275

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded by David Day Pdf

This gorgeous 150th anniversary edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is also a revelatory work of scholarship. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--published 150 years ago in 1865--is a book many of us love and feel we know well. But it turns out we have only scratched the surface. Scholar David Day has spent many years down the rabbit hole of this children's classic and has emerged with a revelatory new view of its contents. What we have here, he brilliantly and persuasively argues, is a complete classical education in coded form--Carroll's gift to his "wonder child" Alice Liddell. In two continuous commentaries, woven around the complete text of the novel for ease of cross-reference on every page, David Day reveals the many layers of teaching, concealed by manipulation of language, that are carried so lightly in the beguiling form of a fairy tale. These layers relate directly to Carroll's interest in philosophy, history, mathematics, classics, poetry, spiritualism and even to his love of music--both sacred and profane. His novel is a memory palace, given to Alice as the great gift of an education. It was delivered in coded form because in that age, it was a gift no girl would be permitted to receive in any other way. Day also shows how a large number of the characters in the book are based on real Victorians. Wonderland, he shows, is a veritable "Who's Who" of Oxford at the height of its power and influence in the Victorian Age. There is so much to be found behind the imaginary characters and creatures that inhabit the pages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. David Day's warm, witty and brilliantly insightful guide--beautifully designed and stunningly illustrated throughout in full colour--will make you marvel at the book as never before.

Author : Belle Moses
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547224648

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Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home by Belle Moses Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home" (The Story of His Life) by Belle Moses. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Carolyn Sigler
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0787696501

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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Carolyn Sigler Pdf

"Documents on the writing, reception, and reputation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"--

Author : Jenny Woolf
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429968393

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The Mystery of Lewis Carroll by Jenny Woolf Pdf

A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton's all-star Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self contradictory. He reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life. Jenny Woolf's The Mystery of Lewis Carroll shines a new light on the creator of Alice In Wonderland and brings to life this fascinating, but sometimes exasperating human being whom some have tried to hide. Using rarely-seen and recently discovered sources, such as Carroll's accounts ledger and unpublished correspondence with the "real" Alice's family, Woolf sets Lewis Carroll firmly in the context of the English Victorian age and answers many intriguing questions about the man who wrote the Alice books, such as: • Was it Alice or her older sister that caused him to break with the Liddell family? • How true is the gossip about pedophilia and certain adult women that followed him? • How true is the "romantic secret" which many think ruined Carroll's personal life? • Who caused Carroll major financial trouble and why did Carroll successfully conceal that person's identity and actions? Woolf answers these and other questions to bring readers yet another look at one of the most elusive English writers the world has known.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101075985729

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Through the Looking-glass by Lewis Carroll Pdf

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Michael Neugebauer Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-28
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN : 0735813426

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The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pdf

This is award-winning illustrator Zwerger's acclaimed interpretations of two beloved children's classics in one boxed set. Full-color illustrations.