CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF ALICE
Oh my ears and whiskers, how late its getting!
Would you be surprised to see a white rabbit take a watch out of his waistcoat pocket?
Only Lewis Carroll has shown us the world upside down the way a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh
Precise, dream-like, subversive
The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books lies in language. . .. It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children
Without these two books in my childhood I doubt whether my imagination would have developed at all
"What is the use of a book" thought Alice "without pictures or conversation?" If you feel the same way, then you'll love
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is full of good conversations. Alice talks to a pipe-smoking caterpillar and a mad hatter
Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was born on 27th January 1832 at Daresbury in Cheshire. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford University and later became a mathematics lecturer there. He wrote
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and
Through the Looking Glass (1872) for the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. He was very fond of puzzles and some readers have found mathematical jokes and codes hidden in his Alice books. His other works include
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869),
The Hunting of the Snark (1876),
Rhyme? And Reason? (1882),
The Game of Logic (1887) and
Sylvie and Bruno (1889, 1893). Dodgson was also an influential photographer. He died on 14th January 1898.