The Complete Works With Tenniel's Drawings
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Few names in the English literary canon conjure magic quite like Lewis Carroll, and this comprehensive volume unites his complete works with the iconic illustrations of Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings became inseparable from Carroll's immortal imagination. The collection chronicles the full breadth of Carroll's genius, from the anarchic, dream-drenched adventures of Alice Liddell tumbling down rabbit holes and stepping through looking-glasses, to his sharp nonsense verse, mathematical puzzles, and lesser-known prose — all rendered vivid by Tenniel's celebrated Victorian artistry. Carroll's writing occupies a singular position in world literature, simultaneously charming children and confounding philosophers, its surface whimsy concealing layers of linguistic subversion, satirical wit, and proto-surrealist logic that would go on to inspire generations of writers, artists, and thinkers from the Surrealists to Jorge Luis Borges. Tenniel's drawings, reproduced here in their original detail, are not mere decoration but a co-authorship — a visual grammar that anchors Carroll's most untameable flights of fancy to an era while keeping them timelessly strange. Whether encountered for the first time or revisited after decades, the question Carroll leaves every reader with remains the same: what, precisely, is real, and what is only a dream?
Author: Lewis Carroll
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Few names in the English literary canon conjure magic quite like Lewis Carroll, and this comprehensive volume unites his complete works with the iconic illustrations of Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings became inseparable from Carroll's immortal imagination. The collection chronicles the full breadth of Carroll's genius, from the anarchic, dream-drenched adventures of Alice Liddell tumbling down rabbit holes and stepping through looking-glasses, to his sharp nonsense verse, mathematical puzzles, and lesser-known prose — all rendered vivid by Tenniel's celebrated Victorian artistry. Carroll's writing occupies a singular position in world literature, simultaneously charming children and confounding philosophers, its surface whimsy concealing layers of linguistic subversion, satirical wit, and proto-surrealist logic that would go on to inspire generations of writers, artists, and thinkers from the Surrealists to Jorge Luis Borges. Tenniel's drawings, reproduced here in their original detail, are not mere decoration but a co-authorship — a visual grammar that anchors Carroll's most untameable flights of fancy to an era while keeping them timelessly strange. Whether encountered for the first time or revisited after decades, the question Carroll leaves every reader with remains the same: what, precisely, is real, and what is only a dream?