Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll Tenniel Paperback 9781108059589

Alice's Adventures in WonderlandAuthor(s): Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108059589, 978-1108059589\nSynopsis\nAn accomplished mathematician and photographer, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [tel], writing under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, transformed children's literature with this world-famous classic. First published in 1865, this tale of the topsy-turvy was originally created to entertain the young Alice Liddell and her sisters during a picnic in the summer of 1862. The humour with which Dodgson enlivened his mathematical works is exploited to the full here: many of the now-familiar nonsense songs and poems in the story are parodies of contemporary works, and there are a number of allusions to mathematical concepts in the text. The illustrations by Punch cartoonist Sir John Tenniel [tel] depict the cast of much-loved characters - including the White Rabbit, the Ches.