Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

An accomplished mathematician and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (183298) writing under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll transformed children''s literature with this world-famous classic. First published in 1865 this tale of the topsy-turvy was originally created to entertain the young Alice Liddell and her sisters during a picnic in the summer of 1862. The humour with which Dodgson enlivened his mathematical works is exploited to the full here: many of the now-familiar nonsense songs and poems in the story are parodies of contemporary works and there are a number of allusions to mathematical concepts in the text. The illustrations by Punch cartoonist Sir John Tenniel (18201914) depict the cast of much-loved characters including the White Rabbit the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter with a brilliance which perfectly enhances Dodgson''s gently satirical fantasy. In its universal appeal the story remains unsurpassed.