Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (V&A Collector's Edition)

Author(s): Lewis Carroll

Classics/Collections | Middle Readers

This beautiful hardback edition is one of five special Puffin Classics created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum, and has a stunning cover design adapted from their William Morris collection. You never know where you'll find yourself in Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll! On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute . . .


Product Information

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.

General Fields

  • : 9780141385655
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.194
  • : June 2023
  • : 184mm X 132mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 160
  • : 823.92
  • : English
  • : 417
  • : Hardback
  • : Lewis Carroll