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Genre | Children’s literature, Fantasy, Literary nonsense, Surreal fiction |
Subject | Children's books, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Literature, Tamizdat, Translation into Russian |
Author/Editor | Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] (British, 1832-1898) |
Translator | Nabokov, Vladimir [Набоков, Владимир Владимирович] (Russian-American, 1899-1977) |
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Л. Карроль. Аня въ странѣ чудесъ / Перевод съ англ. В. Набокова. — Анн Арбор: Ардис, 1982.
Title-page: Л. КАРРОЛЬ | Аня въ странѣ | чудесъ | Перевод съ англ. В. Набокова | съ рисунками Джона | Тенниеля | издательство АРДИС | Анн Арбор | 1982 ||
Original English title: Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Modern Russian reading: Льюис Кэрролл. Аня в стране чудес; This work has also appeared in numerous other Russian translations under titles such as Аня в стране чудес, Приключения Алисы в Стране чудес, and Алиса в Стране чудес.
Physical description:
Softcover, original publisher’s wrappers with red Tenniel illustration, 215 × 140 mm (octavo), printed on white wove paper.
Pagination: [1–4] 5–114 [115 contents] [5 blanks] — 120 pages (60 leaves) altogether.
Imprint:
First published by “Gamaiun,” Berlin, 1923
Copyright by Vladimir Nabokov
This edition published by Ardis, 2901 Heatherway, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
© 1982 by the Vladimir Nabokov Estate
ISBN:
• 0-88233-658-4 (cloth)
• 0-88233-659-2 (paperback)
Note:
This edition reprints Nabokov’s 1923 Russian translation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written for émigré children in Berlin. The translation preserves pre-revolutionary Russian orthography and includes the original illustrations by John Tenniel.
Provenance: (1) Galina Korovina; (2) Back cover sticker: Szvede Slavic Books, Palo Alto, CA, marked “OP/95”, price $15.00.
Contributors:
Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (British, 1832-1898) – author
Владимир Владимирович Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov] (Russian-American, 1899-1977) – translator
John Tenniel (British, 1820-1914) – artist
Ardis Publishing (Ann Arbor) – publisher
Carl Ray Proffer (American, 1938-1984) – publisher
Ellendea Proffer Teasley (b. 1944) – publisher