Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection)

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You can also donate to Standard Ebooks to help fund continuing improvement of this and other ebooks. More free fiction ebooks The 1992 musical theatre production Alice used both books as its inspiration. It also employs scenes with Carroll, a young Alice Liddell, and an adult Alice Liddell, to frame the story. Paul Schmidt wrote the play, with Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan writing the music. [120] [121] Although the original production in Hamburg, Germany, received only a small audience, Tom Waits released the songs as the album Alice in 2002. Watson, Victor (2001). The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English. Cambridge University Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN 0-521-55064-5. OCLC 45413558. The journey began at Folly Bridge, Oxford, and ended 5 miles (8.0km) away in Godstow, Oxfordshire. During the trip Carroll told the girls a story that he described in his diary as "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" and which his journal says he "undertook to write out for Alice". [9] Alice Liddell recalled that she asked Carroll to write it down: unlike other stories he had told her, this one she wanted to preserve. [10] She finally received the manuscript more than two years later. [11]

Straley, Jessica (2016). "Generic variability: Lewis Carroll, scientific nonsense, and literary parody". Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp.86–117. doi: 10.1017/cbo9781316422700.004. ISBN 978-1-316-42270-0. Nicholls, Catherine (2014). Alice's Wonderland: A Visual Journey Through Lewis Carroll's Mad, Mad World. Race Point Publishing. p.188. Like the Goodreads sensation, JG Keely says a good children's book works for both adults and children and makes you think. This book does that aplenty. It was like Alice was there in Wonderland, and we as readers were there with her. Seeing every kooky thing first hand and were just as amazed, awed, and enthralled as her. Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2ded.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-174437-2. OCLC 921452204. a b c d e f McCrum, Robert (20 January 2014). "The 100 best novels: No 18 – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017 . Retrieved 25 January 2022.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at Oxford University. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book. Alice in Wonderland 150th anniversary: 8 very different film versions". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022 . Retrieved 10 May 2023. Tea and Alice top 'English icons' ". BBC. Archived from the original on 26 April 2009 . Retrieved 18 September 2022.

The Alice we expect today may have had the Hollywood treatment along the way, then, but one of the most striking things about the characters of Wonderland is how very easily they morph and bend to an artist's vision, while still remaining recognisable. And a good question it is! Though this collection holds far more than just the well-known Alice in Wonderland stories, those were my favourites. Carroll is incredibly witty and really has a way with words that shows best in those stories and, in my opinion, a few short stories and some of his poetry. He masterfully constructed Alice Through The Looking-Glass according to moves during a game of chess. It blew my mind. His Oxford-themed poems make me miss the place so much, as he does it justice. Sulcas, Roslyn (1 March 2011). "Alice on Her Toes, at a Rare Tea Party". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 9 November 2016 . Retrieved 25 January 2022. Day, David (2015). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Decoded. Doubleday Canada. ISBN 978-0-385-68226-8. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022 . Retrieved 24 January 2022.Gordon, Colin (1982). Beyond the Looking Glass: Reflections of Alice and Her Family. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-112022-6. OCLC 9557843. I noticed particularly in this installment that Alice is almost constantly insulted, ignored, and looked down upon. This poor seven-year-old child has to maintain a polite, calm state of mind through all sorts of insult and injury. I think that this is a remarkable feat for such a young child...in fact, I'm not entirely sure that I could be so calm and patient! It was the Sylvie & Bruno books that took me the longest to get through, because I honestly had no idea what was going on at times. The basic premise is the narrator going along on his normal life, but he falls into an "eerie" state (akin to the place between being awake and dreaming) that he encounters fairy children. But the fairy children sometimes become real children, and I don't even know. What was that all about. Nina Auerbach discusses how the novel revolves around eating and drinking which "motivates much of her [Alice's] behaviour", for the story is essentially about things "entering and leaving her mouth." [56] The animals of Wonderland are of particular interest, for Alice's relation to them shifts constantly because, as Lovell-Smith states, Alice's changes in size continually reposition her in the food chain, serving as a way to make her acutely aware of the 'eat or be eaten' attitude that permeates Wonderland. [57] Nonsense [ edit ] Boe Birns, Margaret (1984). "Solving the Mad Hatter's Riddle". The Massachusetts Review. 25 (3): 457–468 (462). JSTOR 25089579.

Alice's Adventures Under Ground". Royal Opera House. Archived from the original on 5 February 2020 . Retrieved 6 February 2020.How Doth the Little Crocodile"—a parody of Isaac Watts' nursery rhyme, " Against Idleness and Mischief" [35] Lewis Carroll and Helen Oxenbury, illustrators of an edition from Walker Books, win the Kurt Maschler Award for integrated writing and illustration. [66] Liisa ihmemaassa on toki jo itsessään sen verran tunnettua puppua, että ei siitä enempää. Sylvie & Bruno sen sijaan oli minulle täysin u Taylor, Robert N., ed. (1985). "Lewis Carroll at Texas". The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; University of Texas at Austin. ISSN 0024-2241. Despite the original stories' reliance on wordplay, puns, and nonsense, Alice has become such an icon that she is often used as a touchstone even within primarily visual media. When Christopher Wheeldon first suggested a ballet version, his designer Bob Crowley reportedly thought he was "completely insane" to make a wordless Wonderland. But the Royal Ballet's 2011 show was a huge hit – not least because of Crowley's designs, which combined familiar Alice shorthands with classical tutus and cutting-edge stagecraft, from op-art projections to a multi-part Cheshire cat puppet. The Queen of Hearts stepped out of an intimidatingly huge crinoline-cum-throne-cum-tank, to dance a parody of a sequence from the ballet Sleeping Beauty: both very Lewis Carroll, and very ballet.

Mad Hatter and the March Hare having their eternal tea party while asking Alice riddles they don’t know the answer of themselves, Caterpillar smoking a hookah while sitting on a mushroom (with certain ‘properties’) , the ugly Duchess and her pig and lastly the Queen of Hearts ( “Off with her/his head!” ) were all such different characters with really stupid but equally amusing jokes and spirit. There are many lessons, morals, and parables here, but you have to work at it and figure them out. A book that stimulates your mind. It took me a while to figure out that every line, every word, every dialogue was a puzzle that you have to unravel yourself. Lot's of double entendres here. Jaques, Zoe; Giddens, Eugene (6 May 2016). Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass : A Publishing History. Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315592275. ISBN 978-1-317-10552-7.All in the golden afternoon..."—the prefatory verse to the book, an original poem by Carroll that recalls the rowing expedition on which he first told the story of Alice's adventures underground After all the metaphors and symbolism regarding Alice, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter in beaver hat, and going down the Rabbit holes, it was surreal reading the Original thing after all that but it wasn't surreal enough.