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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Written by Lewis Carroll

Narrated by Shelly Frasier

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Originally published in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the best-known and most popular works of English-language fiction. The story centers on Alice, a young girl who falls asleep in a meadow and dreams that she follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit hole. She has many wondrous, often bizarre adventures with thoroughly illogical and very strange creatures. Often changing size unexpectedly (she grows as tall as a house and shrinks to three inches), Alice encounters such characters as the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, the Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the Mock Turtle, and the Red Queen. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a classic that is beloved by listeners of all ages.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 11, 2008
ISBN9781400178582
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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), was an English writer, mathematician, logician, deacon and photographer. He is most famous for his timeless classics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. His work falls within the genre of ‘literary nonsense’, and he is renowned for his use of word play and imagination. Carroll’s work has been enjoyed by many generations across the globe.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I don't feel like the modern illustration fits with the classic work for some reason. Otherwise the images are beautifully done.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The classic fantasy story, with wonderful pen and ink drawings by Sir John Tenniel. This is THE reading experience I remember from when I was 10.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Yes, I'm sure that I read this before, but what a treat to read it at my rapidly-advancing age. Not unlike the Oz books, I find this tale much smaller, in a way, than the vague, vast, and varied inklings from popular culture, but also more bizarre and interesting in its details. Looking forward to a (return) trip with Alice through the looking glass.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    As a child, I read the stories of Alice in Wonderland (and, later, Through the Looking Glass) with a sense of wonder and amusement. Alice shows that it is possible to engage with a world which makes no sense on her own terms; she is not overwrought at her lack of understanding of the improbable and bizarre happenings around her. She brings reason to bear in narrow, specific cases (such as when arguing with the Red Queen), but is not paralysed by the irrationality of general occurrence. In this, she is like all children - dealing with reality not by knowing, but by exploring and engaging. This sense of innocent inquiry creates great sympathy in the younger reader.As an adult (older, grizzled and perhaps wiser), re-reading these stories once again provokes wonder and amusement - but this time, the wonder is at the ingenuity of the author and the amusement is if anything greater. This shift in reaction is because, as an adult, I know a few things: I know that it is impossible (in general life!) for soldiers to be playing cards, for Cheshire cats to disappear from the tail and for children to shrink and grow at the slightest provocation. Knowing this increases my admiration for Lewis Carroll, as he has constructed a world where the impossible occurs, but not without its own logic.While there is nonsense, there is structure - and the impossibilities have the common feature that they are all things which might occur to an imaginative young child while daydreaming. Thus they are not simply random (which would be nowhere near so satisfying to read), they are linked and interlocked to form a thoroughly pleasing structure. The underlying structure of the poem Jabberwocky has been analysed at length in [Hoftstadter], which elicits further wonder at the interlinked meanings and senses in the work. The amusement, of course, comes from understanding more of the jokes!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book was really... random. Some parts were really boring.Personally, I like the mad tea party the best.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is not one of my favorite books. But this edition has really marvelous graphics that improve upon the story. If you like this book, this edition would certainly be worth adding to your collection as it is beautiful.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    i don't care how old you are, this is a great story!!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It was okayy..
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Being a big fan of the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland I had high expectations when I picked up this book but I was surprisingly disappointed. I found Alice to be quite the little annoyance. Much more 'childish' than I expected. I also found myself bored of the novel half way through.I understand this is a children's story but the writing was not as I had expected from a novel that is considered a classic. The concept of the story is brilliant beyond words and has the greatest potential to be amazing and yet the writing was flat and at times awkward to read.This is the first novel-turned-movie, that I actually prefer the movie over the actual novel.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I rented this book on my kindle, it was very interesting and quite a page turner. I wish I could go to wonderland just for one night and see it all, even though Lewis Carroll uses wonderful imagery.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    OK, I'm not going to be doing a review of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as I did a rather lengthy one last year, but I do want to talk about the illustrations in this new edition. I'm a sucker for picking up multiple copies of a book that I like if there are new illustrations or something in the book that catches my interest (for instance, this is my third edition of Alice that I own, and I have 6 editions of A Christmas Carol - just to change it up a little, I try to read a different edition each time I re-read these).Of course, with the new Tim Burton film, Alice in Wonderland coming out in just a few short weeks, it seems that Alice is everywhere I look these days, and imagine my surprise when a friend pointed this edition out to me yesterday at B&N. I am a real stickler for the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations for Alice, but I have to say that Camille Rose Garcia's illustrations are just so unique and original that I couldn't pass the book up. These are very much a modern day Alice - Garcia kept the feel of being in a dream intact, but brought them to vibrant, technicolored life. To be honest, these illustrations look like they could have been pulled right out of Tim Burton's head - they have that same creepy yet beautiful look and feel that I find so mesmerizing about Burton's films. Garcia's illustrations are a little off-kilter and her characters look a little crazed and everytings seems just a little out of proportion (even for poor Alice, who always has trouble keeping to just the right size) and yet it all comes together to create a wholly refreshing new look for the cast of the story. We even get a few glimpses of scenes that weren't illustrated in the original, such as the actual Lobster Quadrille, not just the Mock Turtle and Gryphon's demonstration. I'm hopeful we'll get to see her take on Through the Looking Glass in the near future.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Silly but interesting.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is my boyfriend's favorite book, but quickly became one of mine, as well. I think that it was well written, funny, and there's a lot to take from it. In the end, I could go on and on about how much Alice seemed like a little brat, or how the mad tea party is my favorite scene, but that would make this review much bulkier than I would like. However, I would have to say that the story is able to be read over and over, which I have done.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Addressing strange and difficult issues as time, size and perspective, transformation and introducing the game theory almost a hundred years before it was presented as a mathematical idea in the conventional way, amongst other philosophically difficult ideas - and then engage children successfully, is a great achievement - leaving the readers of all ages curious about the nature of our existence - as compared to other living matter - as well as the nature of our observation of ourselves and everything outside ourselves. Carroll made a sensible, highly readable, enjoyable story out of (what for most people) is nonsense, no less.Wonderful reading.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Here is a story I have always heard about, but never got to read or even see one of its film adaptations. I placed it under the banner of 'ILS 516 Modern Fantasy' because just as Young et al. (2020) stipulate, any work of modern fantasy has its author known (p. 148). Since this was around the time I had begun to exhaust the stack of books I checked out before my library closed, I decided to take a chance on the audiobook version for us LION cardholders. I did just that and felt that as good as Scarlett Johansson is at reading this book, it is really disappointing there are no sound effects. See, my personal measuring stick of an audiobook is Stephen King’s The Mist. My dad used to have it on cassette being told with so-called ‘3D Sound.’ This basically meant that the text had sound effects accompany it. So, if a part of the story took place during a rainstorm, you actually hear the rain in the background of the conversations. This made the book literally come to life in a way that could not be achieved from just reading it. I was hoping that because this was a fantasy story, there would be sound effects added too. For example, one perfect usage would have been when Alice falls into the pool of her own tears at the beginning; there could have been the sound of her falling into water. Yet, not a single sound effect is used. Ultimately, even though I really liked the story itself, I am disappointed it did not take advantage of the audiobook format more.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Classic story that I love to read even more than watching the movie so I can picture things the way I want and give the characters their voices. A must read for all children.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This has to be the most intricate read and imaginatively inspiring books that I have ever come across.There is so much action occurring during Alice's time through the rabbit whole that explaining it would never be as satisfying as reading it. Each character occupies only small sections of the book but they are so memorable, so fascinating and different that one can not forget who they are, their story, and where they've come from.Alice herself is very smart for her age (9 I do believe?) and questions every question that a character throws at her. She does not fuss over small matters but instead opts through out the book to accept the differences.Carroll's characters make a lot of good points, their words have different meanings to it making the reader rethink about what they've just read. I nodded my head many times. Carroll is one for play on words and thinking outside the box about words, letters, and much much more.Through The Looking Glass may have been even more elaborate with Alice's encounter with the White Queen and her journey through an imaginary chess board to reach the status of Queen.There is so much more significant moments in the book that I want to comment on but it may just become an entire essay.This is a classic, the classic I've heard so much about and so glad I spent the time to read!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Fantastic book! Wonderfully illustrated!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It was fun and bizarre and I'm happy I read it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I have known this story a little, but I had never read this book. So I decided to read it. This book is easy to read and the story isd interesting. I respect Alice's mind because I am easily scared, I do not have the courage to have an adventure. I want to have the curiosity that Alice have.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I read this book but in the 1865 version. It was a great and very enjoyable. It was originally written for the entertainment of children but its wittiness and written points of view attracted adult readers as well. The nonsense in the story allows adult readers to think as a child does as well as thinking outside the box. The story is filled with different characters and personalities, which have been thought to represent the different personalities of Lewis Carroll.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Listened to this on CD. Alice's adventures after she falls down a rabbit hole chasing the white rabbit. She runs into several other characters, the cheshire cat, the queen of hearts, the tortise, and has quite an imaginative adventure in wonderland.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It's hard to review 2 books at once. I loved the first book. But I was not impressed with the second. Like many, I've been spoiled by movies so I was very disappointed to find out the Jabberwocky was just a poem. I was also surprised at how young Alice truly is in the books. All-in-all was an interesting read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It is loaded with lots of literal interpetations of language and crazy dream like twists! Funny, silly, definately entertaining. I think my favorite part was Alice's conversation with the White King.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I really need to go buy the t-shirt that says “The book was better”. (see thinkgeek.com) When I was exposed to Disney cartoon movies (later in age than most), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland always confused me. I couldn’t understand all the wonderment and fantasy; my brain wasn’t wired to appreciate it. Oddly, now that I’ve read the book for the FIRST time in my (much) later years, I suddenly understand AAiW. AAiW is just about a kid being a kid. Not trying to survive evil somebody, not being hunted, not on a forced adventure. She dreamt/wandered into this adventure out of boredom, and we go on this silly journey with her. There’s a touch of brattiness, and that’s exactly the way it should be. Is it meant to be processed and understood in the traditional sense? I doubt it. Are there hidden lessons? (or morals, morals, morals – hint, read the book) Well, Alice learned to plan ahead (keep the mushroom pieces with her), to walk away from situations that don’t treat her properly (Mad Hatter’s Tea Party), and to recognize her strength (multiple times, most notably when she became the biggest and was no longer afraid of the Queen).Written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a distinguished scholar and mathematician under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, we are treated to simple word play fun of lessons that lessen and tortoise vs. taught us. Of course, need to pay homage to the “different branches of Arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision”. Now, what exactly does that mean? Damn, I’m being an adult again. Stop it! :) A quick comment about the book version:I have the inexpensive Dover Thrift Edition which has the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel that accompanied the book during its first publication in 1865. Highly recommend any edition with these illustrations.One Quote:In words or in the movies, this is amusing:“The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing; and, when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in act of crawling away…”
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of the best loved classics of all time, and with good reason. In this fantasy, Alice goes through a rabbit hole and finds herself in a world of wonders. In spite of the wonderful nature of the place, much is also frightening, which makes this an accurate representation of the perils and pitfalls of childhood (and adulthood, too, it might be said). Charming and engaging, this is one for the ages.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a classic must read book for everyone.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Delightfully fun, whimsically amusing and what an imagination! Between the outlandish characters, the silly puns and the play with logic, it is easy to see how this book is such a great story for both children and adults. Obviously, a reader needs to love - or at least appreciate - the nonsensical fun to fully enjoy this story, especially given the caricatures and the mayhem that is Wonderland. I can see where some adult readers may revisit this one for nostalgic childhood reasons, but I think I probably appreciate the story more as a adult reader, than I would have reading it as a young girl. Overall, very happy to have finally read this children's classic.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Title Alice in WonderlandAuthor Lewis Newellillustrator John Tenniel Publisher Book byte DigitalDate 2011Pages 74Short Summary: This book is about Alice she meets a bunny this bunny pulls out a watch and says that he is late and goes down a whole Alice follows and there is a hallway lined with doors. She goes in the doors and finds a garden and she behind to cry when she realizes she cant get to the garden because she cant fit through the door so she finds a bottle that says drink me so she drinks it and she shrinks down to fit then she finds a cake that says eat me and she eats and she grows really tall she still cant get to the garden so she starts crying she shrinks and falls into her pool of tears and this pool becomes a sea. Alice goes on many adventures in this book.Subject and tag headings would be imaginary My Response: I didn't really like this book there is no way any of this can happen this is fantasy the movie to this actually use to give me nightmares when I was younger. I remember I would have dreams where Alice would be big a giant and I would see her coming towards me trying to get me and like step on me and squish me. so yea I did not like the book or the movie for that matter also.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the Classic nonsense tale of an English girl falling down a rabbit hole, there to encounter the strange world of absurdly anthropomorphized animals and playing cards, enigmatic messages and, well, sizing issues :-D

    A Classic is usually a novel that has become so ingrained in the collective memory or culture, that one might not be sure whether one has read it or not. The reputation of the book itself precedes the actual experience of reading it and the characters are often the prototypes of later iterations and any number of adaptations. If you've never experienced Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, or read it once before, or even if you've read it multiple times, it bears (another) reading. As familiar as many are with the tale, to actually read or hear the original, un-Disneyfied tale is a pleasure as the nuances of the language surface and fade in ephemeral logic and gently wry humor. The subtlety, whimsy and detail of Wonderland, its inhabitants and their language lends itself to repeated discoveries.

    Michael York as the narrator of this audiobook edition brings a nice range of character voices to the story, never sounded absurd himself as he renders the tale of Alice with obvious affection and a master storyteller's grace. His smooth, somewhat effete British voice evokes the romance of an afternoon spent on the Thames and brings the curiouser and curiouser world of Carroll's creation to life.

    Redacted from the original blog review at dog eared copy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; 07/12/2011