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Here's what one reviewer said about
Louis Carroll:
The Complete Illustrated Works:I have a copy of Alice in
Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass which was given to me on my
seventh birthday. I wish this copy still had the original artwork on
the cover. I found it fascinating. My grandmother gave me a copy
along with a harmonica. The harmonica was lost long ago, the book
remains and has always had a place in my heart. I was too young to
read the entire book, so my father started reading this book to me.
Perhaps still having this book has given me a connection to the
past.
I laugh when I reminisce about my father (who is now 70) singing
"Beautiful Soup," most beautifully I must add. He also recited
"Jabberwocky" and I can still hear his voice as he read the tale of
the Walrus:
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of
shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings and why the
sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings."
The Mad Tea Party is also very memorable. There is all kinds of
nonsense talk children will love to try to figure out, and as adults
still might be trying to figure out! They will love the riddles and
beautiful illustrations. The mouse, the chess pieces and the
Cheshire cat talk most intelligently about various concerns in
Wonderland. Just as everything in a child's world is sometimes alive
to them, so Alice's world is filled with things that are alive and
most interesting to children.
Alice never seems to run out of adventures. The Looking Glass
House is amusing to me as it has a cute black kitten who is quite
mischievous. I quote:
"Oh, you wicked, wicked little thing!" cried Alice catching up
the kitten and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it
was in disgrace. "Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better
manners! ....... Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to
watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one
paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help if
it might.
John Tenniel's illustrations make the book and together he and
Louis Carroll created a magical world for children to explore. I
hope you will read this book to your children, read them many books
about many things. They will always thank you for it. Thank you Dad,
I love you! You have given me so many things, and I thank you for my
love of reading. I dedicate this review to my dad who will always
live eternally with me as long as I have this book tucked safely
away.
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
Louis Carroll
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
Louis Carroll
Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more
simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it
might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not
otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be
otherwise.
Louis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep
in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run
at least twice as fast as that!
Louis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
"I've had nothing yet", Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I
ca'n't take more." "You mean you ca'n't take *less*. It's very easy
to take *more* than nothing."
Louis Carroll, the Mad Hatter's response to Alice
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful
tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or
less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words
mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty
Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
Louis Carroll
I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person
then.
Louis Carroll |
