Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Wordsworth Classics) - 'Lewis Carroll',  'Michael Irwin',  'Keith Carabine'

The week before reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland I read The Migraine Brain in which I learned that Lewis Carroll was a migraine-with-aura sufferer. Migraines muddle thinking and reduce concentration. And for him, a migraine meant distorted vision. Disproportional Alice. Tall and small Alice. Strange tastes. Odd sights and sounds. Mixing up words. All inspired by migraines. Without knowing this, my experience of his most famous work would have been very different.

 

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