Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By Lewis Caroll

Book Overview

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll is a classic work that tells the extraordinary tale of Alice, a seven-year-old girl. She feels bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister and notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. Intrigued by it, she follows it down a rabbit hole when, unexpectedly, she finds herself amidst a series of adventures. She has many marvelous, often bizarre adventures with thoroughly illogical and very strange creatures. With its fantastical tales and riddles, this book takes you on a strange yet amusing journey that will leave you enchanted.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DWG4LBVH
• ISBN13: 9788194790990
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Pharos Books Private Limited
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Neelkanth edition is a faithful but streamlined children’s reprint

Sample Contrast Neelkanth (2024) presents Alice’s fall down the rabbit hole with illustrations and straightforward text, emphasizing narrative flow for children. Oxford (2009): Same passage, but accompanied by footnotes explaining Carroll’s wordplay, Victorian references, and Tenniel’s artistic choices. ------- An occasional review will focus on this point. Alice in Wonderland is no more a children's book than "The Lord of the Rings". Occasionally, this and “Through the Looking-Glass” are bundled. If you are lucky, they will include "The Wasp in a Wig," a recently discovered episode Carroll deleted from Through the Looking-Glass, but which fits into the story in interesting ways. The reason this five-star out of 5 stars book gets fewer stars occasionally is not because of its contents or purpose; it is because of either being mistaken for a kid's book, in which case one wonders why it is forced on kids, or it is so dated that even the reader thinks it is g-o-b-b-l-e-d-y-g-o-o-k. The book is filled with references to contemporary items and wordplay of the era. If you fall into either of these categories, then you need to first purchase "The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition"; this will clear up this understandable confusion. Be aware that every sentence is a play on words for a jab at the culture of that time. I will not go through the story, as that is why you are buying this book. However, I will say that it is a classic and should be part of everyone's cultural education. When you make it through this book and enjoy it, the next challenge should be "Alice's Abenteuer Im Wunderland,” German Translation. If you are also interested in sci-fi, then you should try to obtain a copy of "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Henry Kuttner.