Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) (9780241331620)

Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards, wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one golden afternoon in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disorderly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood.