Even if he’s known for his Alices, Lewis Carroll privately produced and printed a huge amount of pamphlets, writings and pieces. Among the over two hundred pamphlets, twenty of them are the reinvention of original games, as he seemed to have a knack for finding new and original ways of playing old games. The complete […]
In Chapter VIII of Alice in Wonderland, Alice finally gets back to where she started through a door in a treetrunk and eventually arrives in the beautiful garden she had seen through the keyhole of the first chapters. There, we meet one of the most iconic characters of the book, right alongside the White Rabbit, […]
Do you work in the construction industry? Have you ever found yourself covering up something in a space that needed to open in five minutes? I know I did, and I know this is why all my sympathies go to the poor guys painting the roses red in the opening of the chapter where we […]
When I talked about the White Rabbit’s house, I made some mistakes in attributing the illustrations and you can clearly see it when you read the description of the next character we meet after leaving behind the Cheshire Cat: the March Hare. …she thought it must be the right house, because the chimneys were shaped […]
Last time I left you with the Ugly Duchess, and her ugly unsettling pig-baby. Ugh. But the Duchess also has a cat, and he’s probably one of the most famous, beloved characters in the whole book: the grinning Cheshire Cat. Cheshire is, as you might know, an actual place in England, formerly known as the […]
Chapter IV of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland features a new meeting between Alice and the White Rabbit, who’s still worried about being late with the Duchess (a character that’s usually blended with the Queen of Hearts). It’s another famous growing up / shrinking down scene, the one within the White Rabbit’s house, so our guidance […]
It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there was a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Last week, we fell with Alice in her own pool of tears and made our […]
It took me three Sundays to get here, between falling Alices, psychedelic corridors, glass tables, drink-me bottles and eat-me cakes. Today we properly step out from chapter 1, even if we already did that (the scenes where Alice grows up are, in fact, in Chapter 2). At the beginning of Chapter 2, we see the […]
If you ever doubt about the suggestive power of Alice in Wonderland, just wait for a minute and consider that we’re still in chapter 1 and we have already been drowned in pictures and interpretations of the striking visual images Carroll concocts in those pages. Drink me We were left with the glass table and […]
Last week we followed Alice down the rabbit hole and I brought you quite an extensive selection of illustrations depicting her fall, at the end of which I’m sure some of you felt like Loki. I certainly did. At the end of the first chapter, a couple of things happen: the rabbit disappears, and Alice […]