Lewis Carroll Books

The book was for my 21 yr. old daughter. She requested the book for Christmas. She was very pleased.

it should be law that every child read this wonderfully written book, actually that might be going a bit far, but I LOVE this book, it was read to me as a little girl (given it was the Disney version) and later I purchased it again to read as an adult and I still have to same love and excitement from the story that I all those years ago.
While I could go on about the way this book is written mine is a purely sentimental review!
following Alice down the Rabbit whole is the perfect bed time or rainy day story

Lewis Carrol's stories: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass are amazing stories with hilarious lines and trickery. Complete fantasy with dim-witted and funny characters that can outsmart Alice, but not even themselves! Alice's adventures are fantastic and any fantasy lover should take this opportunity in an instant! (Humpty Dumpty makes sense of the Jabberwocky poem!) If you want to laugh hard, read Alice's Adeventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass.

This is a reasonable, hardcover box-set of Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice" books. It makes a great gift for Alice lovers of any age or for introducing a young reader to Carroll's imaginative, delightful, and thought-provoking children's stories.

What makes this edition better than the average copy of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" is that it features the celebrated, rarely-seen illustrations originally penned by Meryn Peake for a 1940's printing of the "Alice" books.

Mervyn Peake is remembered as the author of the "Gormenghast" fantasy novels, as well as for his fine illustriations of classics like the "Alice" books and "Treasure Island." In my opinion, his illustrations are more unique, artistic, and magical than John Tenniel's drawings for the first editions of Lewis Carroll's works, with which we are all more familiar.

If you a looking to purchase a copy of "Alice" to put on your bookshelf, I definitely recommend this one.

I have been collecting Alice in Wonderland items for nearly 30 years and I am happy to add this book to my collection. The information is presented in a format that is accessible to the general public and not just the Alice afficianado. The book production is also wery pleasing. The wonder of Alice is how she shows up all over the globe in so many ways 140 years after her conception. I think the title of the book understates to what extent Alice lives in our modern popular culture.

I love this book. I received it yesterday at my office and read what I could on my lunch hour. I couldn't wait to get home. I bought this because I wanted to eventually introduce my 1 year old granddaughter to "Alice In Wonderland." Imagine my surprise to find that I can start reading to her now. There are extended nursery rhymes, funny sayings and a fascinating dialogue through the whole book. The illustrations are superb! I can start my granddaughter on the "white rabbit, calico cat, the queen" as well as "Alice" just from these wonderful illustrations. I can highly recommend this book for children and also adults who enjoy Lewis Carroll's wit. I cannot write enough good things about it.

This anthology is a must for any lover of poetry and/or clever turns.
I managed to find a copy at a library, so despair ye not.
Features poems by Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash, E.B. White, as well as many other fantastic talents.

More than 450 poems ranging from the 17th century to the present; emphasis on the present. Over a third of the poems have never before appeared in any anthology. This is the only big illustrated book of light verse, and the illustrations are delectable. Some are by the poets themselves; Lear, Bab Gilbert, Oliver Herford, G K Chesterton, Nicholas Bentley, and Walt Kelly. The Great masters are here too; Ring Lardner and Mark Twain; Nabokov, Houseman, Wodehouse, Lewis Carroll, Ed Lear, Ogden Nash, Morris Bishop, John Updike, A B Frost, and so many more. This one outclasses every other anthology of its kind in (or out of) print!

This is an excellent book for everyone who loves Russian language or culture. This is actually written in archaic spelling so you can aprecciate Nabokov's translation at a 100%.

This is a great reading for anyone who loves Russian classics. It combines the unique Nabokov's style with the wonderful plot of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece. Don't expect to see the exact translation of Carroll's book, rather consider it as a "variation on the theme" of "Alice in Wonderland". Take a book, a cup of tea, spend the time with favourite and funny Carroll's heros in the magic country of Carroll-Nabokov.

This book is wonderful; full of adventure and creativity. Students love it!! To Fly On A Bee is an awesome read!!!

This is a great book for little ones. My kids listened through the whole book. It's great that the book had so many different animals and adventure. Maria A. Antuna Preschool Teacher

All the original artwork by Tenniel and a special section in the back of the book w/ games, trivia, logic tests, etc. Well worth it. I love it!

I have not yet read this entire book, but over the past few months I have used this book many times to help me learn facts about Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidg Dodgson) and I have always found it interesting and helpful. It could only be better if it were a larger work: perhaps it will be expanded to two volumes. This one volume doesn't touch on everything one might like: E.g., I would like to read more about Dodgson's mathemaical works and interests.

A wonderful explication of everything Alice! So well written. Seek this out if you wish to really explore the riches that Alice in Wonderland offers. Ms. Reinstein has created a masterpiece.

For I have read Alice in wonderland in Spanish, French, Italian and English. I know that translations can mutilate the piece of work, but in many cases (such as Alice and 100 years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez) it can feed the literary sense of the pages. The game of words, in every language will dispose of different elements, thus giving the images within the text new visions, new symbols, new meanings. Wonderful book, wonderful dream. for life, what is it, but a Dream?