Alice's Adventures in Wonderland x{0026} Through the Looking Glass

Resumen del libro

A beautifully jacketed paperback omnibus edition of Carroll's classic novels, with illustrations by Mervyn Peake

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have captivated the imagination of adults and children alike since they first appeared more than a hundred years ago. Since that time many artist have attempted to capture their dreamlike combination of impossible events, precise detail and weird logic. Mervyn Peake is on of the few to have succeeded. Famed worldwide for his Gormenghast trilogy, Mervyn Peake was also an illustrator of rare and wondrous talent, whose editions of Treasure Island and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are universally admired. In the 1940s he was commissioned to produce a set of 70 pen-and-ink drawings to accompany Lewis Carroll's two classics, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. They are among his best work as an illustrator. Unavailable in any edition since 1978, these extraordinary illustrations, many of which were drawn on poor quality wartime paper, have been restored to their former clarity and crispness by a combination of old-fashioned craft and the latest computer technology. They are now meticulously reproduced, for the first time, as they were meant to be seen. This exquisite two-volume set is the first edition to do justice to two great English eccentrics

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Lewis Carrollx{0026}lt;/B , seudónimo de Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, nació en Daresbury, Inglaterra, en 1832. Su padre era clérigo, y él fue ordenado diácono en 1861, pero renunció a proseguir la carrera eclesiástica. Desde 1851 vivió en Christ Church, Oxford. Allí llevó una vida retirada, dedicado a la docencia de matemáticas -disciplina sobre la que escribió diversas obras bajo su nombre auténtico- y a desarrollar una fructífera labor como fotógrafo y escritor que es inseparable de su atracción hacia el mundo de las niñas. Precisamente una de sus pequeñas amigas, Alice Liddell -hija del decano de Christ Church-, le inspiró sus dos libros fundamentales: x{0026}lt;I Alicia en el País de las Maravillasx{0026}lt;/I (1865) y x{0026}lt;I A través del espejox{0026}lt;/I (1871). Estas obras contienen complejos elementos de fantasía y juego lógico, parodia y sátira, y al igual que el extenso poema x{0026}lt;I La caza del Snarkx{0026}lt;/I (1876) fueron concebidas según la más viva tradición inglesa del nonsense . Lewis Carroll dedicó los últimos años de su vida a escribir y publicar trabajos de lógica simbólica. Murió el 14 de noviembre de 1898.x{0026}lt;/P