Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Artwork by Yayoi Kusama (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole-and yet-and yet-it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!
Included are 41 John Tenniel illustrations from the original 1865 publication.
Down the rabbit hole away little Alice goes. Follow her at your own peril, but beware of the world you are about to enter. One with a decapitation-crazed queen, an unintelligible duchess, a sleepy dormouse, a chronically late rabbit, a witty Cheshire cat, a blue hookah-smoking caterpillar, a Hatter and a March Hare hosting a mad tea party, and a caucus race so bewildering that the best way to explain it is just to do it
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Community Reviews
It's a darn good thing this is illustrated and that I saw the Disney cartoon many, many times while growing up because I'm not sure I would have known what the heck was going on otherwise.
This seems like a complete mess. There is no sense in how one event hops to another. There is little sense in what is being said or how the characters interact.
But then POOF! There will come a line that makes SO much sense that you wonder if you actually had the sense all along. Or that you didn't but now do. Or that you never had nor will you ever have sense.
Oy vey.
'It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy.'
The illustrations were very cool. The story was good enough. My imagination is crap (in my defense, I was an extra imaginative child...perhaps I used it all up too fast).
3.5 Stars
This seems like a complete mess. There is no sense in how one event hops to another. There is little sense in what is being said or how the characters interact.
But then POOF! There will come a line that makes SO much sense that you wonder if you actually had the sense all along. Or that you didn't but now do. Or that you never had nor will you ever have sense.
Oy vey.
'It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy.'
The illustrations were very cool. The story was good enough. My imagination is crap (in my defense, I was an extra imaginative child...perhaps I used it all up too fast).
3.5 Stars
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