In March 2010, Tim Burton's new film of Alice in Wonderland is released and will spark interest in the classic novels Lewis Carroll has legions of fans who collect all editions of his work and every year new generations of children discover the classic Alice novels Mervyn Peake's illustrations lend a fresh enchantment to the much-loved stories
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), or Lewis Carroll as he was better known, was a lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford University when he wrote Alice in Wonderland (1865), and later Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) for Alice Liddell. Mervyn Peake (1911-68) was an artist and writer. In addition to Treasure Island and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, he also illustrated Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm and The Hunting of the Snark. His novels include the Gormenghast trilogy - Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone - and Mr Pye.
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