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Lewis Carroll: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works, Deluxe Edition (Literary Classics) Description
Binding: Leather Bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.809
EAN: 9780517147818
ISBN: 0517147815
Label: Gramercy
Manufacturer: Gramercy
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 896
Publication Date: 1995-08-30
Publisher: Gramercy
Product Release Date: 1995-08-30
Studio: Gramercy
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.809
EAN: 9780517147818
ISBN: 0517147815
Label: Gramercy
Manufacturer: Gramercy
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 896
Publication Date: 1995-08-30
Publisher: Gramercy
Product Release Date: 1995-08-30
Studio: Gramercy
Editorial Review of Lewis Carroll: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works, Deluxe Edition (Literary Classics)
This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.
Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.
Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection.
Customer Reviews of Lewis Carroll: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works, Deluxe Edition (Literary Classics)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: handy collection but poor quality
Review: Story-wise, this is a nice collection. But the text is rife with typos, the paper is thin and the illustrations are often scrunched as small as possible.
But whatever, if you want his most popular works in an easy-to-go package and won't be driven mad with irritation at the sub-par quality then pick it up.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: ...down the rabbit hole
Review: This book is really for the person who is really into Carroll and will read through all of his works. It's a thick volume and is useful to me, but this is because i am writing a book so i'm probably not the best judge since i have to read all of the collected works.
Another astute reviewer said, "Do you really want all of the collected works?" But for the price, i say, you may as well buy the book, then you can see what you like and skip around. Who is to say or dictate that you must read cover to cover. You may find there are writings of Caroll thatyou didn't know about before - such as his poetry and so on.
I own the book and find it very handy for reference but also as a genral book of interst. It's also a good gift book for adults and children alike and is a handsome volume and is not muddled up with annotations like many of Carroll's books are these days, which is fine, but more for the scholar. This is the perfect book to dip into and again, a good gift book and as a former publisher i can tell you that the price-point is excellent for what you get here. A bargain.
If you like Carroll's Alice books, you may as well buy this since it will cost you more or as much to buy both of them. This way, you get both Alice books and then some. There is an argumnt right there.
sadi ranson-polizzotti
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Very poor service from Amazon
Review: I This ordered this item back in Oct. It is now Feb, and I have not yet gotten my book. I just keep getting email telling me that the deliver date has been moved back. This has to be among the worse service I have ever got from from a retailer. As for the book, I really can't say anything about it because I haven't got it yet.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: item not available
Review: I ordered this item in September 2005, and after multiple extensions, Amazon let me know last week (Feb 2006) that this item was no longer available. They should be taking this item off their listing -- it is a great book to have, but regrettably unavailable.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Do you really want the complete works!
Review: 'The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works, Deluxe Edition' of lewis Carroll's works may actually be more than you really want. While three of Carroll's works, the two Alice fantasy novels and the long poem, 'The Hunting of the Snark' are major classics of English literature, Carroll wrote an equal or greater amount of pretty dull stuff, primarily the two 'Sylvia and Bruno' novels, which I have never been able to finish.
On the plus side, the fact that this edition is 'fully illustrated', meaning that it has both John Tenniel's illustrations for the Alice stories AND Henry Holiday's illustrations for 'Snark'. Even so, you may just be better off buying just the annotated versions of the Alice stories and the annotated Snark.
Forewarned is forearmed!
Review Summary: handy collection but poor quality
Review: Story-wise, this is a nice collection. But the text is rife with typos, the paper is thin and the illustrations are often scrunched as small as possible.
But whatever, if you want his most popular works in an easy-to-go package and won't be driven mad with irritation at the sub-par quality then pick it up.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: ...down the rabbit hole
Review: This book is really for the person who is really into Carroll and will read through all of his works. It's a thick volume and is useful to me, but this is because i am writing a book so i'm probably not the best judge since i have to read all of the collected works.
Another astute reviewer said, "Do you really want all of the collected works?" But for the price, i say, you may as well buy the book, then you can see what you like and skip around. Who is to say or dictate that you must read cover to cover. You may find there are writings of Caroll thatyou didn't know about before - such as his poetry and so on.
I own the book and find it very handy for reference but also as a genral book of interst. It's also a good gift book for adults and children alike and is a handsome volume and is not muddled up with annotations like many of Carroll's books are these days, which is fine, but more for the scholar. This is the perfect book to dip into and again, a good gift book and as a former publisher i can tell you that the price-point is excellent for what you get here. A bargain.
If you like Carroll's Alice books, you may as well buy this since it will cost you more or as much to buy both of them. This way, you get both Alice books and then some. There is an argumnt right there.
sadi ranson-polizzotti
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Very poor service from Amazon
Review: I This ordered this item back in Oct. It is now Feb, and I have not yet gotten my book. I just keep getting email telling me that the deliver date has been moved back. This has to be among the worse service I have ever got from from a retailer. As for the book, I really can't say anything about it because I haven't got it yet.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: item not available
Review: I ordered this item in September 2005, and after multiple extensions, Amazon let me know last week (Feb 2006) that this item was no longer available. They should be taking this item off their listing -- it is a great book to have, but regrettably unavailable.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Do you really want the complete works!
Review: 'The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works, Deluxe Edition' of lewis Carroll's works may actually be more than you really want. While three of Carroll's works, the two Alice fantasy novels and the long poem, 'The Hunting of the Snark' are major classics of English literature, Carroll wrote an equal or greater amount of pretty dull stuff, primarily the two 'Sylvia and Bruno' novels, which I have never been able to finish.
On the plus side, the fact that this edition is 'fully illustrated', meaning that it has both John Tenniel's illustrations for the Alice stories AND Henry Holiday's illustrations for 'Snark'. Even so, you may just be better off buying just the annotated versions of the Alice stories and the annotated Snark.
Forewarned is forearmed!