Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Down the rabbit hole and into the extraordinary — Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland remains one of the most enduring works of the Victorian imagination, chronicling the surreal journey of young Alice through a topsy-turvy world populated by logic-defying creatures, tyrannical queens, and philosophical riddles that confound as much as they enchant. This special edition presents Carroll's original text alongside bold, hypnotic artwork by Japanese contemporary art legend Yayoi Kusama, whose signature polka-dot iconography transforms Wonderland into a vivid, dreamlike canvas that feels simultaneously alien and deeply familiar. Carroll's genius lies in his ability to weaponise nonsense — constructing a narrative that reads as pure whimsy on the surface while concealing sharp satirical wit and profound meditations on identity, authority, and the chaos of growing up. Kusama's visual interpretations amplify these themes with an obsessive, avant-garde intensity that speaks to both the madness and the wonder at the heart of Carroll's world. Together, text and artwork forge an edition that is as much a collector's art object as it is a literary classic — leaving the reader to wonder where Carroll's imagination ends and Kusama's begins.
Author: Lewis Carroll
Format: Hardback
Published: 2012, Penguin Random House
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Down the rabbit hole and into the extraordinary — Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland remains one of the most enduring works of the Victorian imagination, chronicling the surreal journey of young Alice through a topsy-turvy world populated by logic-defying creatures, tyrannical queens, and philosophical riddles that confound as much as they enchant. This special edition presents Carroll's original text alongside bold, hypnotic artwork by Japanese contemporary art legend Yayoi Kusama, whose signature polka-dot iconography transforms Wonderland into a vivid, dreamlike canvas that feels simultaneously alien and deeply familiar. Carroll's genius lies in his ability to weaponise nonsense — constructing a narrative that reads as pure whimsy on the surface while concealing sharp satirical wit and profound meditations on identity, authority, and the chaos of growing up. Kusama's visual interpretations amplify these themes with an obsessive, avant-garde intensity that speaks to both the madness and the wonder at the heart of Carroll's world. Together, text and artwork forge an edition that is as much a collector's art object as it is a literary classic — leaving the reader to wonder where Carroll's imagination ends and Kusama's begins.