Lewis Carroll

"It's been 150 years since Lewis Carroll penned Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the story which has become a favorite of children and adults the world over. Now, in a deluxe hardcover edition from Puffin, Alice's story comes to life for a whole new generation of readers through the colorful, whimsical artwork of Anna Bond, best known as the creative director and artistic inspiration behind the worldwide stationery and gift brand Rifle Paper Co....

"In this sequel to the beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice's trip begins when she follows her kitten through a mirror, once again entering an imaginative world where nonsense is the norm. As she travels across the chessboard land in her quest to become a queen. Alice has many amusing encounters with strange new acquaintances, such as talking flowers, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and the White Knight, who is particularly bad...

Alice's adventures begin when she sees a White Rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and rush away into a rabbit hole. As she jumps to her feet to follow it, she tumbles into Wonderland, where things get "curiouser and curiouser". She meets some peculiar and unforgettable characters too - there is the Caterpillar who smokes a hookah, the vanishing Cheshire Cat with his enormous grin, and the cantankerous Queen of Hearts who constantly threatens...

The classic tale of a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters also includes the earliest version of the book and a simplified retelling for younger readers by its original author.

Alice debuted in Carroll's first draft of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Under Ground originated from stories told to the Liddell sisters during an afternoon on 4 July 1862 while rowing on the Isis with his friend Robinson Duckworth, and on subsequent rowing trips. At the request of ten-year-old Alice Liddell, Carroll wrote down the stories as Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which he completed in February 1864....

With satire, adventure, and imagination, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems explores subjects such as the supernatural, love, friendship, and nature. Featuring sixteen of Lewis Carroll's poems, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems has something to appeal to everyone. Among this collection is A Sea Dirge, in which the speaker, equipped with evocative figurative language, explains their contempt for the sea. In Echoes, a young girl discloses her encounter with...

Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fantasy world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books, the...

Las aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas se publicó originalmente en 1865. Nació de los relatos que Lewis Carroll improvisaba para tres amiguitas suyas, las hermanas Liddell, a una de las cuales está dedicado este libro. Con el paso de los años, Alicia se ha convertido en un libro clásico de la literatura universal, y aunque su autor lo escribió como una historia para niños, personas de todas las edades se lo han apropiado gracias...

This poem describes a battle with a fearsome beast called "The Jabberwock" and is considered to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The poem is included in Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In an early scene in that novel, Alice discovers a book that is written backwards. Realizing that she's in the inverted "looking-glass...