Lewis Carroll's 1871 novella, Through the Looking Glass, contains numerous allusions to Cervantes' 1605 novel, Don Quixote. Lewis Carroll uses elements from the comic masterpiece as shorthand for a certain kind of absurdist humor. Like Cervantes, Carroll creates a main character, Alice, who is ba...
What a lovely pair of stories. Everyone knows of Alice in Wonderland because of the movies based off it but not many realize that those movies actually combine "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass." When you read this book, with the stories separated, you're able to a...
One of my favourite books. Remarkable different from all of the popular fiction surrounding the engaging and charming story.
We all know the stories thanks to one adaptation or another.Since I was a little girl I've loved the Alice in Wonderland movies from the classic Disney one to the one with Tim Burton's creative twist. Lewis Carroll's stories are incredibly renowned and for good reason, too. His writing is so uniq...
What can I say about Alice that has never been said before? Likely nothing at all! I just adore Alice, never mind the interpretations of Carroll being on drugs or what have you, never mind seeking a deeper meaning. To enjoy Alice the most take it at face value.A little girl's adventures in dreaml...
Frustrating, curious, and sleepy like the Dormouse. Christopher Plummer's narration is brilliant.
Imaginative. Had a fabulous journey through Alice's wonderland! thankful to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a very good book for all ages. Most people say it is only a children's book but I disagree. This book has imagination and creativity, something a lot of us let go of sometimes without even realizing it.Alice is the main character in this piece. Alice is a ve...
I didn't read the book with this cover (I got the pretty leather bound edition from Barnes and Nobles). I wanted to read this since it's a classic and I'm fascinated with the whimsical aspect, but it's very hard to follow. I knew it would be a little weird and random, but I just felt like I was r...
Been eyeing this adorable pink & gold leatherbound edition for months. On a whim I finally walked into Barnes & Noble and bought it. When I got home that same night, I finished Alice's Adventures in a sitting. Such an easy and lovable read for me; I have many, many times before. Even as an adult ...
I have the green classic bound book. I wanted to read all of his works but I have many other books that I wanted to read so I mainly focused on the Alice series. I liked parts of the book but it's difficult when the reader is trying to make sense of a nonsense world. I loved the poetry included i...
“Così rimase seduta con gli occhi chiusi, quasi credendosi nel Paese delle Meraviglie, pur sapendo che sarebbe bastato riaprirli per ritornare alla grigia realtà.”Quand’ero bambina, c’era un unico cartone della Disney che non guardavo mai con piacere. E questo era, non a caso, Alice nel Paese del...
What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations? I agree--especially conversations. And the conversations in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are some of the most famously fabulous confabulations. (Don't mind me, I just like how that word sounds). These p...
I think that the failure not only of Children's Literature as a whole, but of our very concept of children and the child's mind is that we think it a crime to challenge and confront that mind. Children are first protected from their culture--kept remote and safe--and then they are thrust incongru...
Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice, a bright and inquisitive child, follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a very odd place indeed. This unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, Mock Turtles and Gryphos to provide an astute description of the ex...
Alan Bennett's distinctive readings of children's stories have become classics in their own right. His interpretations of the wonderful characters that people Lewis Carroll's extraordinary novels are, as ever, exactly right.
Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice, a bright and inquisitive child, follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a very odd place indeed. This unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, Mock Turtles and Gryphos to provide an astute description of the ex...
First published in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July of 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a surreal world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside-dow...
Or will ye run me a race? Or will ye go up to yonder bridge, And there we will angle for dace?” “I'm too stupid for Greek and for Latin, I'm too lazy by half for a race, So I'll even go up to yonder bridge, And there we will angle for dace.” He has fitted together two joints of his rod, And to th...
One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. “And has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! ...