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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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a story for children (1865) by Lewis Carroll.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(1865) A book by Lewis Carroll. Alice, a young girl, enters Wonderland by following the White Rabbit down his hole and has many strange adventures there. She meets the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, the grinning Cheshire cat, and the tyrannical Queen of Hearts. Through the Looking-Glass is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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This deluxe edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” — from David Brass Rare Books in Calabasas for $19,500 — is one of just 200, signed in pencil by Dalí and among a small handful marked hors commerce, meaning it was reserved for the publisher and close collaborators.
His surrealist reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian children’s novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” distorts the nonsense and whimsy: melting clocks and anxious White Rabbits, sinister playing cards and caterpillars on mushrooms.
The show saw him lead conversations with academics about a wide variety of historical, scientific, philosophical and cultural topics - from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Zenobia, Queen of the Palmyrene Empire.
But there are many other props that were not featured in the much-loved tale by Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Created by the Canadian company Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal, this White Rabbit will be right on time for the festive May 18 opening of “Wonderland: Curious Nature,” an exhibition inspired by Lewis Carroll’s books “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There.”
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