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3rd edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-toned and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; "Some or all of the material in this book originally appeared in A-Z of Tolkien, The Tolkien bestiary and/or Tolkien the illustrated encyclopedia, copyright Octopus Publishing Group 1979, 1991, 1993"--Title page verso. Includes indexes. Subjects; Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) 1892-1973 Characters ; Dictionaries. Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) 1892-1973 Criticism and interpretation. Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) 1892-1973. Fantasy fiction, English ; Dictionaries. Middle Earth (Imaginary place) ; Dictionaries. Characters and characteristics. Fantasy fiction, English. Middle Earth (Imaginary place). Middle Earth (Imaginary place) ; Encyclopedias. 1 Kg.…

Paperback Edition, reprinted. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 279 p. : ill. (some col.), geneal. tables, col. maps ; 28 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973). Genres; Encyclopedia. Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. xxii, 296 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm ISBN 9780385682268, 9780385682275, 0385682263, 0385682271 OCLC 893890108 LCCN 2015462197 LC PR4611.A73 D39 2015 Dewey 823.8 ; color pictorial boards ; no dustjacket ; This gorgeous 150th anniversary edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is also a revelatory work of scholarship. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--published 150 years ago in 1865--is a book many of us love and feel we know well. But it turns out we have only scratched the surface. Scholar David Day has spent many years down the rabbit hole of this children's classic and has emerged with a revelatory new view of its contents. What we have here, he brilliantly and persuasively argues, is a complete classical education in coded form--Carroll's gift to his "wonder child" Alice Liddell. In two continuous commentaries, woven around the complete text of the novel for ease of cross-reference on every page, David Day reveals the many layers of teaching, concealed by manipulation of language, that are carried so lightly in the beguiling form of a fairy tale. These layers relate directly to Carroll's interest in philosophy, history, mathematics, classics, poetry, spiritualism and even to his love of music--both sacred and profane. His novel is a memory palace, given to Alice as the great gift of an education. It was delivered in coded form because in that age, it was a gift no girl would be permitted to receive in any other way. Day also shows how a large number of the characters in the book are based on real Victorians. Wonderland, he shows, is a veritable "Who's Who" of Oxford at the height of its power and influence in the Victorian Age. There is so much to be found behind the imaginary characters and creatures that inhabit the pages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. David Day's warm, witty and brilliantly insightful guide--beautifully designed and stunningly illustrated throughout in full colour--will make you marvel at the book as never before. ; FINE. Book.…