Miscellaneous Alice > i need some help with a alice related descision

[barnes]

my best friend absolutley adores alice in wonderland and for her birthday i am planning a trip to oxford to show her various alice / lewis carroll related sites but i wanted to give her something too andi cant decide between these two books!! the first is the lewis carroll illustrated original Alice's Adventures Underground (obviuosly the facsimile copy ) or the more popular sir john tenniel illustrated version whose story she knows because as you probably already know the stories differ greatly!! i really cant choose and your insights would prove very helpful i'm sure.

thanks

[AliceObsession37]

The original manuscript and the published version isn't very different, it's the same plot just that the published version has more to it. I don't really think it's something to think about...It depends if you know where to go and how much you want to show her. I think you should go with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland if she knows it...but, as I said, they don't differ greatly

[Lenny]

If she is such a fan, doesn't she already have the book? If she doesn't, then you should buy her the Tenniel illustrated version. Or perhaps Gardner's Annotated Alice. Alice's Adventures Underground is mainly interesting for fans who already have the book and want to study it more in-depth I think.

Or, another option: let her choose a gift from The Old Sheep Shop in Oxford when you're there!