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Pros
Great buy. Feels like a collectible. Tenniel's sublime illustrations look superb. Pictures and all conveys the feeling of being back in that era a syfy reality.
Just finished it today and proudly placed it on my book shelves. A bit like the cetology chapters in moby * -- tells you everything there is to know about these classics without in the least diminishing their mysteries. Notes refer the reader to other... Read More
Cons
It is ironic to call a book a definitive 150th annotated edition of the text and then not actually even bother annotating it. He basically even says in the introduction, “i’m too lazy to actually annotate what people want me to annotate, so i left tha... Read More
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Quality
The quality is to die for and the annotations make the reading a whole new experience
I am very happy with this excellent book with new annotations and pictures
I suspect what is going here is that there is a poor quality publication of alice which is well out of copyright and does not h... Read More
Its quite a heavy book great for young and old alike
Shipping
Arrive in 1 week shipped to chile
Packaging/appearance
Good packaging and received in good conditions
It was a beautiful edition and the annotations added a lot
It‘s beautiful without the cover as you can see in the picture i’m sharing
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Any twenty first century reader of alice not well versed in the cultural environment of victorian britain will benefit from the annotations contained in this volume
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Bought this several times as a gift this is the worst red it has ever been
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Bursteins apologia for the section of 34the wasp in a wig34 originally omitted by lewis carroll himself for the final printed book
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It sheds a different light on alices personality
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Throughout both books alice is presented as a rather snobbish and selfcentered person but in 34the wasp in a wig34 she is shown to be compassionate and ready to help even though the object of her compassion the wasp is a socially inferior and quite unfriendly creature
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It is indeed a pity that lewis carroll agreed to omit it under tenniels pressure
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Still there is one shortcoming that i would wish were not in this edition
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Theakers renderings of the tenniel drawings for the 1911 macmillan edition of the complete alice in which alice wears the now iconic blue dress
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