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Unexpected Alices

14 Saturday Mar 2015

Posted by la Clarina in Books, Eccentricities

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Alice in Wonderland, Harry Ransom Center, Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalì, University of Texas at Austin, Vladimir Nabokov

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Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.

The original 1923 cover by Zalshupin for Anya in Wonderland, young Nabokov’s Russian not-quite-translation from Lewis Carroll, with changed names and Russian nursery-rhymes…

Who knew? Or that Salvador Dalì once made illustrations for Alice? All of this and much more can be seen in this fascinating exhibition at the Ransom Center of the University of Texas.

The Copperfield Review’s first anthology – containing Gentleman in Velvet

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