Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll (Author), Mervyn Peake (Illustrator), Lewis Carroll (Author), Zadie Smith (Introduction), Mervyn Peake (Illustrator), Lewis Carroll (Author)

Synopsis

Follow Alice through the looking-glass with the illustrations of Mervyn Peake. Peake was commissioned to produce a series of pen and ink drawings to accompany the Lewis Carroll story in 1940. Originally drawn on poor quality wartime paper, they have been meticulously reproduced for this edition.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 03 Sep 2001

ISBN 10: 0747553734
ISBN 13: 9780747553731

Author Bio
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), or Lewis Carroll as he was better known, was a lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford University when he wrote Alice in Wonderland, and later Through the Looking Glass or What Alice Found There for Alice Liddell. Mervyn Peake (1911-68) was an artist and writer. In addition to Treasure Island and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, he also illustrated Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm and The Hunting of the Snark. His novels include the Gormenghast trilogy - Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone - and Mr Pye.