The Nursery Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland adapted for younger readers by Lewis Carroll #literature whatever your field

whatever your field

‘A church is a sort of wood

TaschenISBN: 9783836599177Extent: 236 pages

powerful critique of the canons of our civilization

funny and life-affirming’ Daily Mail ‘I adored it

The Nursery Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland adapted for younger readers by Lewis Carroll #literature whatever your field"I wrote to Macmillan to suggest a new idea: a 'Nursery Edition' of Alice with pictures printed in." Lewis Carroll's diary, 15th February 1881 The Nursery Alice, originally published by Macmillan & Co. in 1890, was the very first colour edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was intended, wrote Carroll, "to be read by Children aged from Nought to Five. To be read? Nay, not so! Say rather to be thumbed, to be cooed over, to be dogs' eared, to