ALICE IN WONDERLAND Alice's Adventures LEWIS CARROLL
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND T his auction is for an original 1907 FIRST EDITION! of " ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND " by Lewis Carroll, as illustrated by Millicent Sowerby. YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK!!! I t features 12 COLOR PLATES!!! by celebrated artist CHARLES ROBINSON . I t is also filled with 12 PEN & INK ILLUSTRATIONS !!! I t is a work of children's literature by the English mathematician and author, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. A girl named Alice is bored while on a picnic with her older sister. She finds interest in a passing white rabbit, dressed in a waistcoat and muttering "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" She follows it down a rabbit-hole where she finds herself floating down into a dream underworld. As she attempts to follow the rabbit, she has several adventures. She grows to gigantic size and shrinks to a fraction of her original
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