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Caroll Lewis

    Lewis Carroll, an English author, mathematician, and logician, stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses, particularly within the genre of literary nonsense. His most famous writings are celebrated for their imaginative brilliance, exploring the whimsical and absurd with a unique blend of logic and fantasy. Carroll's work is characterized by its playful use of language, paradoxical scenarios, and profound explorations of the irrational. He was a gifted pioneer whose distinctive voice continues to captivate readers with its wit and imaginative depth.

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Alice in Wonderland
    • 2022

      Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass need no the double Alice is among the best-known, most frequently quoted books in the English language, and has been translated into almost as many foreign tongues as has the Bible; in its own branch of the art of fiction it stands supreme. It is the most outstanding among that small group of childrens books which adults continue to read troughout life-and often enjoy more than the audience for whom they were originally intended. At the exhibition in New York in 2015 with Alice in Wonderland´s translations into 174 languages from all over the world, Slovak edition illustrated by Dušan Kállay, Alica v krajine zázrakov, was the grand prize winner as the best of all illustrated editions!

      Alice in Wonderland
    • 2022

      'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.

      Alice's Adventures in Wonderland