It is the power of imagination which makes man free. Free to creep into a rabbit hole and encounter the strangest creatures. Free to shift our size and shape. Free to act out our fears and fantasies. Free to think and feel just what we like.
If anyone gave expression to this exhilarating, anarchic freedom it was Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. His masterpiece of 1865 – which is by no means exclusively a children's novel – has fascinated generations of readers and keeps inspiring artists of any genre to produce their own Alice interpretations.