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Summary: Wonderful
Review: Lewis Carroll is my favorite writer ever and Through the Looking Glass is still my favorite book after all these years. The rest his writings are excellent as wekk.
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Summary: Kinda disappointed
Review: Of course, it is very nice to have pretty much every Carroll work you could want in one volume, however there is one major drawback here. While the blue leather binding and gold gilt text and page edges are quite nice, I found the actual pages to be a very low quality thin paper. Also, the margins are very small, cramming alot of text on each page, while the paper and print quality actually take away a minor of the illustration detail. Overall, not a bad collection, yet I think "The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll" thru B&N is superior even without the bells and whistles.
MK
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Summary: A Monumental Achievement
Review: Outside of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, I enjoy no author in any language more than I do Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known to the world as Lewis Carroll. His bizarrely creative mind stands alone in world literature, and his maze-like stories (which can be interpreted by the reader in a variety of interesting ways) are both immensely enjoyable and intellecutally stimulating. These tales, from the immortal "Alice" books (translated and quoted from more often than any English language text besides Shakespeare and the King James Bible) to the early "Phantasmagoria," are largely accessible, succinct, and simple, yet driven by a striking undercurrent of delicious parody and delightful nonsense. In the age of Marx and Freud, men who attempted to explain everything, Carroll, more than anyone else, stood up for true art; his work (especially the twisted "Hunting of the Snark") defy conventional academic interpretation and application to the real world, thus embodying Nietzsche's sentiment that "we have art so that we don't go insane." His highly creative vocabulary puts his work on the cutting-edge, over 50 years before anyone had heard of his most visible successors, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov (who translated Carroll into Russian), et al. Perhaps it a testament to Carroll's greatness that his works, more than almost any others of the Victorian age, endure so visibly during the modern day; his patented blend of simplicity, wordplay, and, above all, imagination, may never again be seen, and thus ought to be treasured very highly indeed.
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Summary: Creative mind . . .
Review: People keep stating what a creative mind Lewis Carroll was. I'm not taking that away from him at all but it is a very well known fact that he was an opium user.
That explains his creativity in whole
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Summary: Creative mind . . .
Review: People keep stating what a creative mind Lewis Carroll was. I'm not taking that away from him at all but it is a very well known fact that he was an opium user.
That explains his creativity in whole
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Summary: "A unique, clever man with the heart of a child."
Review: Such was the epitaph an actor spoke of C. L. Dodgson, aka. Lewis Carroll. Biographers Agree: Clever, excellent at charades, possessor of an "ear" for dialect and a sophisticated "eye" for visual arts: in sum, tremendous fun to be around. Fortunately, someone named "Liddell" convinced him to publish his stories. This volume includes melancholy works, "Three Voices" "Faces in the Fire", &etc.. The "Sylvie & Bruno" stories are appreciated by patient adults. Still, "the Snark" and "Phantasmagoria" are talented siblings of Alice and the White Rabbit. An excellent grouping, even though I peer at the small print.
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Summary: Amazing!!!
Review: The "Alice" books are amazing...I'm sure most of you know that by now. This edition is unique in that it includes the rest of Carroll's works, as well as "Alice Underground", the original version of "Alice's Adventures in WOnderland." This section is even written in Carroll's own hand with copies of his original illustrations. The book is also of really nice quality (its leather-bound I think). I originally bought this book because I have always wanted to read "Through the Looking Glass." I was gonna purchase a normal $5 paperback version but then I saw this one. I decided to be bold and dish out the extra $15...believe me it was worth it...Heck, I would have paid $50 for it easily... If you buy this book you won't regret it...
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Summary: THERE'S ONLY ALICE
Review: The indeterminate way that Alice In Wonderland appeared could probably never happen again.Somehow the book would not have had the same ring to it if either of the other sisters had pestered Charles Dodgson for the tale to be written down.
The majority discover Alice via the Disney movie which combines elements of both "Alice In Wonderland" and "Through The Looking Glass",changing much along the way.
Thus Alice is only sat in the tree at the beginning in this version.
In the original tale called "Alice's Adventures Underground" some of the characters are missing such as the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter.This is because Dodgson added them later when the book was published with a title change and John Tenniel's artwork
Alice is,today,a massive cottage industry,fuelled by the Internet
and collecting Alice goes three ways really as it adds Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell.
To my mind the most fascinating area of all collecting
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Summary: The Simple Mind Of A Genius
Review: This book, featuring all of Carroll's works, is simply beautiful-for so many reasons. His works reflect on the sweet naivety and intelligence which children behold while adding the more mature views and wisdom of adults. The satire's are remarkable once understood and yet fairy-tale like if not- either way- loved. The charachters and happenings are unfathomably believable whilst being incredibly absurd and archaic, and, perhaps, that is why his works are adored. All in all- a splendid book for all ages.
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Summary: Most complete of his complete works.
Review: This is the only one i've found recently that has "Phantasmagoria" and the handwritten "Alice's adventures underground".
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