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    Alice in Wonderland - A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' - With Illustrations by J. Allen St. John
    Alice in Wonderland - A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' - With Illustrations by J. Allen St. John
    Alice in Wonderland - A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' - With Illustrations by J. Allen St. John
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    Alice in Wonderland - A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' - With Illustrations by J. Allen St. John

    By Alice Gerstenberg and J. Allen St. John

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    This wonderful book contains a dramatisation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The play is illustrated by the delightful illustrations of J. Allen St. John. This book was originally published in 1915 and Pook Press are reprinting it for adults and children to enjoy once again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 27, 2016
    ISBN9781473393998
    Alice in Wonderland - A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' - With Illustrations by J. Allen St. John

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      Alice in Wonderland - A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' - With Illustrations by J. Allen St. John - Alice Gerstenberg

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      Alice in Wonderland

      A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s

      Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and

      Through the Looking Glass

      By

      Alice Gerstenberg

      Illustrated by

      J. Allen St. John

      Copyright © 2015 Pook Press

      An imprint of Read Publishing Ltd.

      Home Farm, 44 Evesham Road, Cookhill, Alcester,

      Warwickshire, B49 5LJ

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or

      copied in any way without the express permission of

      the publisher in writing.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from

      the British Library.

      www.pookpress.co.uk

      Contents

      List of Illustrations

      Lewis Carroll

      John Allen St. John

      Alice in Wonderland

      Act I

      Act II

      Act III

      List of Illustrations

      Alice: You’re Humpty Dumpty! Just like an egg.

      Hatter: Your hair wants cutting.

      Frog: I shall sit here till tomorrow.

      Duchess: I speak severely to my boy,

      I beat him when he sneezes.

      King: I only wish I had such eyes; to be able to see Nobody!

      Alice: Do wake up, you heavy things!

      Biography

      of

      Lewis Carroll

      Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson at the parsonage in Daresbury, Cheshire, England on 27th January 1832. His father was a brilliant mathematician, who neglected an academic career in favour of the clergy, eventually becoming the Archdeacon of Richmond.

      One of eleven siblings, Dodgson was a precocious child, apparently reading John Bunyan’s Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress by the age of seven. In 1843, the Dodgson family moved to North Yorkshire, and a year later the twelve-year old Lewis was sent to Richmond Grammar School. Two years later, he moved to Rugby School in Warwickshire. Despite an unhappy three years there, marked by illness and bullying, Dodgson revealed himself to be exceptionally gifted, particularly in mathematics.

      Dodgson left Rugby towards the end of 1849 and matriculated at Oxford University in May of 1850 as a member of his father’s old college, Christ Church. He went into residence eight months later, in the same week that his mother died from inflammation of the brain.

      At Oxford, despite a tendency towards procrastination, Dodgson excelled. He earned a first-class degree in mathematics in 1854, as well as a second-class degree in Classics, and completed his Masters three years later. Once more following in his father’s footsteps, Dodgson was appointed as a lecturer of mathematics at Oxford 1856, a position he would go on to hold until 1881. Teaching provided Dodgson with a steady income, and over his career he would publish a number of successful mathematical textbooks, including Two Books of Euclid (1860), Elementary Treatise on Determinants (1867), Examples in Arithmetic (1874), and Curiosa Mathematica, Part I: A New Theory of Parallels (1888).

      From a young age, Dodgson had penned poetry and short stories, and it was shortly after graduating that he began to write more seriously. Between 1854 and 1857, his work appeared in national publications such as The Comic Times and The Train, as well as smaller magazines like the Whitby Gazette and the Oxford Critic. In 1856, he published his first piece – a romantic poem called Solitude – under the pen name that he would eventually make him famous: Lewis Carroll.

      Around this same time, Dodgson made the acquaintance of the new dean of Christ Church, Henry Liddell. During the late 1850s, Dodgson became close friends with Liddell’s wife and young children, most notably their daughter, Alice. On an 1862 rowing expedition with the group, Dodgson came up with the outline of the story which would later become Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Having recited the story to the young Alice Liddell, who had begged him to write it down, in 1864 Dodgson presented her with a handwritten, illustrated manuscript entitled Alice’s Adventures Under Ground.

      The young Alice’s enthusiasm encouraged Dodgson to pursue publication, and he quickly received interest from the London-based house Macmillan. After the possible alternative titles Alice Among the Fairies and Alice’s Golden Hour were rejected, the work was finally published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 under the Lewis Carroll pen-name, with illustrations by John Tenniel.

      Telling the tale of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by surreal and anthropomorphic creatures, the book was a huge commercial success, and Carroll was swamped with fan mail. Despite initial lukewarm reviews, it would become increasingly popular over the following years, and is today regarded as one of the finest examples of both the literary nonsense genre and children’s literature more generally.

      Despite the success and financial reward brought by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll maintained his position at Christ Church. Having become a deacon at the cathedral some years earlier – but for

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