Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
and Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
I've always loved Lewis Carroll's Alice books.
They terrified me as a child and fascinated me as an adult.
Sometimes I just dip in and read a favourite chapter.
'Wool and Water' is the best description of trippin' ever!
My treasured copy was given to my eldest brother in 1956.
I can't remember a time when it wasn't around.
It's seen better days as you can see.
I thought I'd celebrate it's 70th birthday
by sharing some of Philip Gough's wonderful illustrations.
Many of them are weird and unsettling
but that Jabberwocky one gave me nightmares when I was a kid :)
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised,
that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)
regards
Titus
Another fan of Alice. Yay! I love the writing from that period. Peter Pan, Wizard of Oz, Pinnochio - I love them all. That Elizabethan English. Is that it? No one talks like that any more.
ReplyDeleteThey are all basically Victorian although Peter Pan was Edwardian (just) and I still doth speak thus sometimes :)
DeleteThe illustrations are simply amazing and soooo unique. Sadly, I fear that real books will eventually be things of the past - I hope this doesn't happen for the sake of our future children. My Grand Children are already glued to their iPads! AR2
ReplyDeleteI have lots of books and friends who are the same but I don't know anyone under 50 who collects them now. The Alice book was kept in a well stocked bookcase at my parents; house. Many memories of sitting in front of it pondering the titles of things that looked too old for me. There was one called The G Men. Sounded like a scary Dr. Who story, LOL, but I think it was about J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I. which is probably even scarier! :)
DeleteGreat to see that It isn't just me who still loves real books. From my earliest years reading Fairy Tales as a nipper, to my advancing years now, reading John Irving, Mitch Albom, Mervyn Peake, Jack Kerouac, Italo Calvino etc...I still enjoy a good book!
ReplyDeleteA few years ago I managed to get a copy of a book I had when I was really young (a long, long time ago!) 'The Land of Far Beyond' by Enid Blyton. It's a sort of 'Pilgrim's Progress' for children. The language is a wee bit of It's time and obviously targeted at kids, but I still love this book after all these years. As for 'Alice', there's' been many a TV/Film adaption, but my favourite by far is Jonathan Miller's take on Carroll's tale.
WBG.
I'll be posting my personal favourite 'Alice' film adaption soon
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