Quotable Alice (Quotable Books)
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In Quotable Alice, David W. Barber brings together the best and most memorable of Carroll's pithy expressions from the Alice books.
With the text is a selection of the famous illustrations John Tenniel created for the original editions.
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Lewis Carroll's two great Alice stories -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass -- have entertained and amused both small children and grown adults alike for nearly a century and a half. Set in Victorian England, these wild, remarkable flights of fancy have had a lasting appeal to the world over and are surprisingly modern in their outlook. With Alice's adventures, which take her down a rabbit-hole to Wonderland or through a mirror into a fantastical game of chess, Carroll tells stories that are amusing and witty, but also surprisingly insightful and profound. Many of Carroll's phrases and expressions -- "Curiouser and curiouser," or "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast" -- have entered the language of everyday use. In Quotable Alice, David W. Barber, whose books include Bach, Beethoven and the Boys and Better Than It Sounds: A Dictionary of Humorous Musical Quotations, brings together the best and most memorable of Carroll's pithy expressions from the Alice books. With the text is a selection of the famous illustrations John Tenniel created for the original editions.
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Item number (ASIN): 0920151523
Creator: David W. Barber, Editor
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.809
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0920151523
Manufacturer: Sound And Vision
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 130
Package Dimensions: 45 x 553 x 853 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: October 6, 2001
Publisher: Sound And Vision
Binding: Paperback
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- Handy Little Reference to the Lewis Carroll BooksA nice book which contains the "best & most memorable" of quotes from "Alice in Wonderland" & "Through the Looking Glass." Contains many well reproduced original illustrations by John Tenniel. This book is divided into two main sections, one for each of the above works, but oddly, there's a separate title page for "Through the Looking Glass" on p. 51, but no such page for "Alice in Wonderland." Each quote is accompanied by the book title, chapter, & chapter title from where it came. There's a nice little keyword index to the quotes, but it could be more complete. For instance, if you want to know which quotes are from the Cheshire Cat, you won't find it in the index. The word "cats" is listed in the index, but those listings refer to only the subject matter of the quotes, not their sources, so the index won't help you find quotes by any particular character. A little overpriced at $14.95 for 118 pages in a small dimensioned paperback.
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