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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

(Vintage Classics)

By Lewis Carroll

(1084)

| Mass Market Paperback | 9780099541547

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"So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible." --Alice in Wonderland

Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternooContinue

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A book that made my childhood. To read first in English and then in translation: some translators are wonderful acrobats and this book is a challenge for every translator. But you can come out alive.

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Carolina Ramos said on Oct 13, 2007 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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Said the Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm mad.You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad ?" said Alice.
"You must be or you wouldn't have come here"
...per l'appunto.

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Pollapollina said on Jul 5, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Non-sense

Written by a paedophile maths lecturer in Oxford, C. L. Dodgson, the two Alice books both witness the author's love for the young daughter of the Dean of Oxford Prof. Liddell (co-author of one of the most important Ancient Greek vocabularies in history, by the way) and deal mainly with language. The ... (continue)

Written by a paedophile maths lecturer in Oxford, C. L. Dodgson, the two Alice books both witness the author's love for the young daughter of the Dean of Oxford Prof. Liddell (co-author of one of the most important Ancient Greek vocabularies in history, by the way) and deal mainly with language. The main tasks of Alice are understanding the meaning of the world she falls in and coping with the strange, adult characters that inhabit it. In fact, there are no other kids in the story, no figures that can be used as Alice's mirrors, as it were.
The strangeness of these characters is not limited to their physical appearance, but extends to the way they use words.
Humpty Dumpty arrives at paying words that serve him well.
Moreover, Alice confronts some problems that are typical of the Bildungsroman, like identity, bodily change, relations with the adult world and so on. Finally, the book is also a satire of Victorian England, even if Dodgson, being very conservative, never touches the two main topics of satiric writing, namely religion and sex.

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Thaumazo said on Jan 28, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

A wonderful book that I have missed in my childhood.

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aub said on Nov 15, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out--
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.
Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic ban ... (continue)

Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out--
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.
Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Plucked in a far-off land.

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Francy! said on Aug 22, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Agarwal Shona728 said on Apr 6, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | 2 feedbacks