Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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The 1992 musical theatre production Alice used both books as its inspiration. It also employs scenes with Carroll, a young Alice Liddell, and an adult Alice Liddell, to frame the story. Paul Schmidt wrote the play, with Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan writing the music. [120] [121] Although the original production in Hamburg, Germany, received only a small audience, Tom Waits released the songs as the album Alice in 2002.

Reading this book for the first time as an adult leaves me bewildered, vaguely amused and mostly lost. I'm now worrying whether I'm too old for children's stories anymore (I briefly reread some of my faves - HP, Winnie the Pooh and Charlotte's Web - and have concluded it's not me, just that book). The first full major production was Alice in Wonderland, an 1886 musical play in London's West End by Henry Savile Clarke and Walter Slaughter, which played at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Twelve-year-old actress Phoebe Carlo (the first to play Alice) was personally selected by Carroll for the role. [113] Carroll attended a performance on 30 December 1886, writing in his diary he enjoyed it. [114] The musical was frequently revived during West End Christmas seasons during the four decades after its premiere, including a London production at the Globe Theatre in 1888, with Isa Bowman as Alice. [115] [116] The introduction by Burstein . . . and Thomas Banchoff provides a valuable grounding in [Dalí's] interests and obsessions at the time the gouaches were created."— Library Journal Olivia de Havilland, Star of 'Gone With the Wind,' Dies at 104". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021 . Retrieved 10 May 2021.Original Alice in Wonderland book cover (1898) [Public Domain] by Copygir1, via Wikimedia Commons Alice in Wonderland Book Covers: 1907

I remember reading and loving this book as a child. I identified with Alice’s point of view, lost in a world both strange and familiar. All the characters she encountered were mad and funny. There was a sense of playful and sparkling adventure. I loved the vintage illustrations by John Tenniel. I guess the charming Walt Disney adaptation also influenced my perception of the book. The following list is a timeline of major publication events related to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

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Until now, the astounding illustrations drawn by Salvador Dalí for a deluxe limited edition and expensive version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland were out of reach for most book lovers. This book fulfills the dreams of many who want to have their own copies of these beautiful works, with the addition of an erudite introduction to Carroll and Dalí by Mark Burstein and Thomas Banchoff."—Edward Wakeling, author of Lewis Carroll: The Man and His Circle

Lovell-Smith, Rose (2004). "The Animals of Wonderland: Tenniel as Carroll's Reader". Criticism. 45 (4): 383–415. doi: 10.1353/crt.2004.0020. S2CID 191361320. ProjectMUSE 55720. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [exhibition item]". University of Maryland Libraries. Archived from the original on 24 November 2021 . Retrieved 13 January 2023. Basbanes, Nicholas (1999). A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. Macmillan. pp. 210–211. ISBN 978-0-8050-6176-5. Harss, Marina (28 August 2014). " 'Alice' in All Its Teenage Subconscious". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022 . Retrieved 24 January 2022. You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” – Lewis Carroll, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland Original Alice in Wonderland Book CoversYou Are Old, Father William"—a parody of Robert Southey's " The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" [36] A] stunning 150th-anniversary edition of the classic novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. . . . Dalí's illustrations afford us a glimpse of Wonderland as he sees it, allowing us to better grasp the implications, tropes and symbols the work is pregnant with."—Wan Lixin, Shanghai Daily How appropriate for this volume to appear as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Burstein and Banchoff give us insights into the genius of both Carroll and Dalí, and then we have Dalí's illustrations, which are far distant from any suggestion of realism. Altogether, it is a remarkable voyage through Wonderland on a new plane—an enlightening and pleasurable adventure."—Morton N. Cohen, author of Lewis Carroll: A Biography Reception [ edit ] Alice in Wonderland by George Dunlop Leslie, 1879, depicting a mother reading the book to her child