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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 Davina Porter

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    In 1862, during a boating party on the Thames River, a young Englishman named Lewis Carroll entertained three little girls by spinning a wondrous story of a disappearing cat, a mad tea party, and a croquet-playing Queen of Hearts. The story so enchanted one of the girls that she begged him to put it in writing. The result was overwhelming fame and fortune for the author and a beloved fantasy classic for children's literature. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has captivated generations of children and adults with its unforgettable blend of laughter, magic and mischief. It is a hot summer afternoon when Alice spies a white rabbit hurrying across the riverbanks. "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" he cries, glancing at a watch drawn from his waist-coat pocket. Of course, Alice has never seen a rabbit wear a waist-coat or a watch before. Curious, she follows the creature-and plunges down a rabbit hole into a strange and unforgettable world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 14, 2008
    ISBN9781440799976
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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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    • 4/5
      I think this book is the epitome of English eccentricity, which is why I loved it. There are several stories around the author, one that he was an epileptic, and that the falling down the hole was a description of one of his seizures, another one which my sister insists on was that he was a drug addict, which sort of taints my view of this as a children's book. I prefer to think he was a brilliant man with a vivid imagination, why is that so hard for people to believe? It's the perfect book to read to a child to spark their own imagination and give them a love of books and reading.
    • 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!
    • 3/5
      The reason why I read this book, this story is much talked about in a movie.But I havn't watch that movie and I don' t know this story in detaile.One day, the main character whose names Alice sees a white rabbit. which has a clock.Alice follow that rabbit and wander into a strange world.It is interesting story. But sometimes I found a sentence which I can't understand.
    • 5/5
      Swift-moving, extremely funny, and pretty much unique (aside from the second one). Gleefully absurd, always inches away from flying off the handle, which it would do if the handle didn't fly off first.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful narration! An audiobook is always more enjoyable when you can distinguish each character. Also, well read. The brief pauses in dialogue representing confusion made me laugh out loud.
    • 3/5
      Lovely colour illustrations
    • 3/5
      I'm loving my new Kindle. Not only is it fun to read books on it but Amazon has a bunch of free books, including Alice in Wonderland. I'm not sure that I've read "Alice" so I decided to give it a go.It is a really good book. The action starts on the very first page when Alice falls asleep and follows the rabbit down the hole. It is a fast paced book with all sorts of twists and turns.After I got into it I realized that I had read it or had it read to me a long time ago because I remember a lot of stuff that bothered me. How Alice grows and shrinks. She grows so much at one point that she has to put an arm out the window of a cottage and her foot up the chimney. I found that very very claustrophobic and disturbing as a kid and it still weirds me out.The other thing that bothered me as a kid was the nonsense spoke by the King and Queen and the judge and many of the other characters. That bothered me also. But hey, after years of listening to Hillary and Bill Clinton, George Bush, Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck I am much better at dealing with nonsensical language than what I was as a child.What really struck me about the book is Alice progressing from being a victim where she just lets stuff happen to her to where at the last she is controlling events in Wonderland. She learns how to control just how big or small she needs to be by eating on the left or right side of the mushroom and she goes from taking everybody's crap to where she tells everybody off. I thought that is very cool.
    • 5/5
      It was such a whimsical vacation read. It was funny and crazy and strange and amazing. The world that Lewis Carroll created was so believable despite its obvious absurdity. The characters are interesting despite only brief encounters with some of them. The crazy poetry and songs were literary works of art in and of themselves. The best part of the book was the ability to lose yourself in Wonderland and allow your imagination to run along with Alice on this fantastic adventure. It was a light read with no deep thought required...perfect for summer vacation!
    • 4/5
      I grew up watching the animated Disney version of this story and I thought the book would be exactly like the movie. They are very similar, however I feel the book has political messages that aren't really developed in the movie. Overall, I liked the book and I was entertained even though I saw the movie first.
    • 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.
    • 4/5
      It's very famous story.I read before,but I didn't remember this story.Recently,ALICE movie was held.I saw the movie.I'm very interested in reading this story.
    • 4/5
      First line:~ Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictiures or conversation, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?~I found this book intriguing and boring at the same time. I think that I have been contaminated by the movies and television shows so the book seemed too 'plain'. Not enough colour. It is one of the few times that I can say that I enjoyed the movie more than the book; usually it is the other way around.I did find that the change of topics from chapter to chapter was inconsistent but when you see that the whole thing is a dream, well, that is how dreams work isn't it? Not much connection between one thing and another, jumping from scene to scene. If I was going to read this to my children I would choose some kind of a Disney version because I think that the graphics, in this case, add a valuable dimension to the reading experience.I am glad that I read it but it will never be a re-read, unless I have a grand-child!
    • 5/5
      the well loved story, i like it now as much as i did way back then
    • 4/5
      The genre of this story is classics.I know this story but I haven't read this story ever.So I enjoyed reading this story.Alice falls down a hole and go to The Wonderland. There are lots of unique character,for example the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter and so on.The character of this book is very unique and I like them.This is very interesting story for me.
    • 4/5
      Silly but interesting.
    • 4/5
      Written as if the writer is on an acid trip, this book is wonderful and frightening at the same time. Rereading it as an adult has made me realize why I was so scared as a child. Alice, The White Rabbit, The Red Queen, The Mad Hatter....all these characters come to life in great detail and description. I would recomend this to anyone who has seen the many movies made. It's strange, wonderful and fun all in one.
    • 5/5
      This classic children's book is a timeless tale that captures children's imagination. This book can be used to introduce upper elementary students to math concepts such as graphing and beginning geometry. Using the characters in the book which are depicted as a deck of cards, children can explore laws of probability using a standard deck of playing cards.
    • 5/5
      This story tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world.She met lots of strange crature,and taught them lots of interesting things.But shi also learned some things from these people.Maybe you feel that it just belongs to fairy tale,and for children only.However,as a part of young people,i think this story is excellent.I gained much imagination from it,i found the way of making our lives become more meaningful.As a result,you won't miss it if you are the person who love the life.
    • 1/5
      I had never really liked the storyline before reading but having never formally read it I felt it was unwise to judge. I hoped this could be a turning point, where reading would make me enjoy it finally. Sadly, while reading, I couldn't wait to be finished! I only somewhat liked the last two chapters. Nothing made any sense and even the puns, which might have been interesting, were so annoyingly redundant that I only grew exasperated with the whole thing. Like a child that keeps asking why, this story goes around in circles, never finding a solid base to stand on. I find there are specific kinds of silliness, silly-stupid and silly-zany, for instance. I think silly-zany was the goal but I only find it silly-stupid. Now that I've read the book, I am sad to admit that I still don't know what others find amusing about it.
    • 4/5
      Alice is always interesting. The Jackson illustrations are not the classic Tenniel,. but good of their kind.
    • 3/5
      I didn't much enjoy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland while I read it (except for the court scene with the King's ridiculous directives; TV shows like Boston Legal are straight out of here!). I especially disliked that Carroll painted himself into corners numerous times and only got out by pulling a new topic out of thin air. And the ending’s device is a frustrating cop-out.Yet, afterward, the story is growing on me. I’m glad to have finally experienced the origins of so many cultural references: the rabbit hole; “Drink Me”/”Eat Me”; the Mad Hatter; the Queen and Knave of Hearts; the rhymes. I suppose, being as logical a thinker as Alice, that I reacted to Wonderland exactly as she did: thinking it was curious, confusing, and frustratingly nonsensical. So, actually, Carroll did an excellent job of putting me there!The book absolutely lends itself to being read aloud -- and with much drama. I think an adult reader would get very much more by delving into an annotated edition.
    • 5/5
      The classical book by Lewis Carrol of Alice in Wonderland has both stories of Alice in Wonderland, from the classic disney one to the modern one. This book is appropriate for all ages. There are two books of Alice in Wonderland one is "Alice in Wonderland" and the other one is "Through the looking glass" both books are about Alice's adventure in wonderland.
    • 3/5
      This book was really... random. Some parts were really boring.Personally, I like the mad tea party the best.
    • 5/5
      Summary: A little girl by the name of Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole where she ends up in another world. She has many many adventures in this world but eventually grows tired of it and wants to go home. After trial and error she finally gets there.Personal Reaction: I adore this book. It's one of my favorite books as well as movies. It is a crazy story but it really opens up a persons imagination. Classroom Extension Ideas:1. Have the kids draw their own types of Wonderlands.2. Use it to teach about being open to different things.
    • 5/5
      Only 2 chapters in and I'm already loving it. I can't believe it took me all these years (I'm now 39) to read this. I know the story, of course, I believe from the Disney movie, but the book is delightful. I find myself chuckling at least once a paragraph. It's just silly!
    • 3/5
      I recently read this aloud to my child. Oh how I wanted to love it! It is iconic but the language and some of the plot was just too strange for us. We did giggle over the tea party and the croquet game.
    • 5/5
      Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a classic that everyone should read. His play with words, his insane universe with amazing characters, and his symbolism make this a work that can be read over and over. Each time I read it I discover new things, and look at it in a different way. Truly an amazing work by an amazing man.
    • 5/5
      There are reasons why some books retain their popularity.
    • 5/5
      This one inexplicably remains a favorite. Bizarre (literally). And somehow timeless.
    • 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!