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200 Rabbit Holes Await At Canadian Library

Sir John Tenniel's Illustration of Alice And The Cheshire Cat, From Lewis Carroll'sAlice's Adventures In Wonderland, 1865. (Images Courtesy of University Of British Columbia's Alice 100 Collection.)The release of Tim Burton's feature film version of Alice In Wonderland in March, 2010 has returned media focus to Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic tale once again. And this means that all eyes are also back on the many previous visualizations of the piece, including Sir John Tenniel's nonpareil original illustrations. For as the first sentence of the book concludes: "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the...

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