You're not reading the protagonist's thoughts, You are the protagonist. That happens because a good book doesn't tell you a story, it transports you into the story. To me the sign of a good book is looking up after a short while of cracking the first page and realizing you've gone halfway through it. You know that feeling when you've been reading one bad book after the other for quite sometime then pick up an extraordinarily good book?! That insane relief and sense of refuge you get when you're finally reading a book you instantly fall in love with? Up until now, I had a pre conceived notion about literature from that time period but 'Alice in Wonderland' completely threw me off. I read it right after another book from the 1800s, coincidentally. At last, readers can see the Alice that Carroll and Tenniel had originally envisioned.Īfter a disappointing first 3 months of 2013, I come across this gem! I had been meaning to get this for quite a while. Now, for the first time, prints from these woodblocks have been used to produce a deluxe gift edition with clearer, more detailed images than have ever been seen before. Unfortunately, these plates deteriorated from the repeated pressure applied during printing, and over time, many of the fine lines in Tenniel's pictures simply vanished altogether.As the year-, passed, the original woodblocks disappeared and were believed lost then, in 1985 they were discovered in a London bank vault. Like most nineteenth-century children's books, the pictures for Alice were created by transferring the artist's drawings to woodblocks, But with Alice, the original blocks served as masters from which metal plates were made for printing. Here, Tenniel's fine line work is far crisper, delicate shadings are reproduced with more subtlety, and details never seen before are now visible. This is the first Alice to reproduce Ternniel's exquisite drawings from prints taken directly from the original wood engravings. In that time Alice has been illustrated by numerous artists, but not one has come close to matching the universal appeal of the original pictures. For over 125 years John Tenniel's superb illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland have been the perfect complement to Lewis Carroll's timeless story.

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