Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lewis Carroll (Epub)

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One of the English language’s most popular and frequently quoted books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a distinguished scholar and mathematician who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Intended for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the fantastic tale transformed children’s literature, liberating it from didactic constraints.

The story is deeply but gently satiric, enlivened with an imaginative plot and brilliant use of nonsense. As Alice explores a bizarre underground world, she encounters a cast of strange characters and fanciful beasts: the White Rabbit, March Hare, and Mad Hatter; the sleepy Dormouse and grinning Cheshire Cat; the Mock Turtle, the dreadful Queen of Hearts, and a host of other extraordinary personalities. This edition features Sir John Tenniel’s complete original illustrations, bringing to life a beloved classic that has delighted readers and listeners since its first publication in 1865.

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One of the English language’s most popular and frequently quoted books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a distinguished scholar and mathematician who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Intended for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the fantastic tale transformed children’s literature, liberating it from didactic constraints.The story is deeply but gently satiric, enlivened with an imaginative plot and brilliant use of nonsense. As Alice explores a bizarre underground world, she encounters a cast of strange characters and fanciful beasts: the White Rabbit, March Hare, and Mad Hatter; the sleepy Dormouse and grinning Cheshire Cat; the Mock Turtle, the dreadful Queen of Hearts, and a host of other extraordinary personalities. This edition features Sir John Tenniel’s complete original illustrations, bringing to life a beloved classic that has delighted readers and listeners since its first publication in 1865. About the Author Lewis Carroll (1832–98) was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are rich repositories of his sparkling gifts for wordplay, logic, and fantasy.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I had a difficult time determing which version was being reviewed in many of these reviews, so I am specifically reviewing the version that is illustrated by Anna Bond. This is a great version to use with younger kids- it has larger print and illustrations on almost every page. If you want to purchase accompanying audio to listen with, just buy the unabridged version and it should be a match.

⭐ My original purchase of Kindle’s “Alice in Wonderland” a few years ago, the cover shown in the store was exactly like the book I had as a child, along with the same original illustrations. Then I discovered that after I had it in my library for a while, it wasn’t what I bought! It was inexpensive, so I looked again in the store…guess what? You can’t judge a book by it’s cover. Even Amazon can’t do it! This review will turn up, as others I’ve read for any book with the same title, or a variation…Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland or “Adventures” , Alice in Wonderland, The Complete Adventures of Alice in Wonderland!!!!!! Egad! I’ve got 3 or 4 different editions, and can’t seem to move to the trash, delete, dip in pieces AAUGH!!!

⭐ Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is dreaming and there is no way for me as a reader to tell what physical abilities she may have while awake; could Alice have a physical disability? As a reader with Cerebral Palsy, I think yes, in this paper I will interpret Alice as Physically disabled.There are some passages that I find interesting as they seem to be confirming my theory. The way the Caucus Race Lewis Carroll described The Caucus Race is “All the party were placed along the course here and there. There was no ‘One, two, three, and away’ but they began running when they liked and left off when they liked…” at last, the Dodo said everybody has won, and all must have prizes.” As a player of adapted sports, this attitude is not nonsensical but quite normal, as these are often the rules in adapted sports that are less intense for disabled people. Alice also struggles to hold the Duchess’ pig-baby. It says “… Kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.” I’ve never held a live baby, but since my right arm is weak, it seems logical that I would struggle to do this. She also struggles with holding her flamingo during the game of croquet. It says “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.” The fact that the Queen of Hearts, the villain of the piece, whom the dreaming Alice has created is ableist to the extreme is how the mind of a disabled person like me, would recreate that person in my head. Alice has experienced ableism in real life, and she emotionally processes it through creating this over-the-top situation in her dream. Lewis Carroll only says of the other players that they were “Quarreling,” not that they struggled with their flamingos. As a final note, while it does say Alice ran to get to the house at the end of the story, Alice says in “Down The Rabbit Hole” “I shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs! How brave they’ll think me at home!” The Line “How brave they’ll think me at home!” implies that this happens more often than it happens to most normally developed children, her Disability may affect some physical abilities and not others. For example, I have the most control over my legs and the least control over my hands. There is also how “Involved” the stuff Alice does in Wonderland is, to begin with.The content of Alice’s dream represents her ambitions, which for a disabled person can be the simplest things. Most of the stuff done in Wonderland is simple, day-to-day activities. Alice dreams of swimming, eating, drinking, having a race, going to a tea party, learning a dance, playing a sport( Croquet), playing fetch with a dog, walking around, talking to people; all given a delightfully bizarre spin by Lewis Carroll; which like the quotes in the paragraph above suggest on a normal day her disability may not let her do the simplest things. The poems being repeated by Alice were based by Lewis Carroll on real poems, and that means Alice is consciously integrating them into her dream like I do today with popular characters and celebrities. This is why I can see myself as Alice rather than just identify with her.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland gave me confidence in my disabled identity. The Caucus Race had the same rules as the adapted sports I was allowed to play, making the fact that they isolated me from my abled-bodied peers easier. Alice and I both have a strong intellect, She thinks about how far she’s fallen, she thinks about how to get into the garden, math, geography, and poetry the typical way we measure intellect, in the first two chapters alone. Alice is disturbed by the fact that she can’t seem to remember the things she used to know, She says to Caterpillar “I can’t remember the things I used”.I have Cerebral Palsy, and the one thing I got praise for more than anything else was being smart. None of the other characters seem to notice Alice is smart, this is because there is a stereotype that the disabled aren’t smart. Throughout Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ the characters doubt, or simply ignore Alice’s intellect. The Caterpillar tells Alice of her rendition of “You Are Old Father William” that “It was wrong from beginning to end’ When told by Alice that “The Earth takes 24 hours to turn around on its axis” the Duchess replies “Talking of axes, chop off her head!” The Mad Hatter teases her with “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” and then tells her he has no idea what the answer is. The Mock Turtle and the Griffin let her explain a little bit of her rendition of “Tis the Voice of the Sluggard.” Soon after saying that the poem is too hard for them; Alice is making progress. When she finally gets to prove her intellect, called as a witness at the Knave’s trial, saying that the evidence “Has not an atom of meaning in it.” and that sentencing someone first is “Stuff and nonsense!” but the response is “Off with her head!” Nevertheless, the Queen of Hearts acknowledges that what Alice said makes sense to her, sending the cards upon her, ending her dream, and finally validating her intellect. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland makes me value my intellect, even if I don’t consider breaking stereotypes valuable to myself. The fact that Wonderland is a dream provides me with the opportunity to say “I can go on an adventure, defeat a villain, just like everybody else” because Alice isn’t doing anything except sleeping! That’s why the “It’s only a dream” ending can be molded into something beautiful.Alice is dreaming, there’s hardly any way to judge what abilities she possesses. Wonderland is more accommodating, requiring no physical feats of daring-do, just a chance to prove one’s intellect. Her physical struggles in Wonderland reflect her physical struggles in real life. Navigating Wonderland lets her figure out how to combat ableism and oppression. The idea that maybe Alice could be like me is a magical and realistic ending for intelligent, imaginative, and adventurous girls like me and Alice.

⭐ Multiplicity of editions can be frustrating if you want to spend correctly just once. The AmazonClassics edition is a very good edition, almost perfect, it has X-Ray, the original illustrations in a good size, modern typography and a very polished formatting; except one part: there is a beautiful poem/tale, “The Mouse’s Tale”, in which a mishearing makes Alice to blend tail with tale and the story appears typographically in a quite beautiful shape of a tail, sinuously getting narrower til being as thick as an individual letter. Unfortunately in the AmazonClassics Edition the shape is rather like a sinuous river, it losses its meaning. I checked other kindle edition I have, “Alice in Wonderland: The Complete Collection” edition by Maplewood Books, the illustrations are a bit less clear (at least that was I felt), the formatting, although good, it’s not as exemplar as the AmazonClassics Edition but to my tranquility “The Mouse’s Tale” is formatted faithful to the original, so I will stick to that complete edition and I won’t get the second book, “Through the Looking-Glass,” in the AmazonClassics Edition, for fear that it will not express the intentions of the author.Peculiar book. Although built of meaningful blocks of events, as a group they are surreal; if there exists a meaning, is meant for only an initiated in the reasons of the story. For what I read it could be for the amusement of a little girl friend of Lewis Carroll. I love it very much. Weird and all, inscrutable and unfathomable as it is to me at the same time it is exciting and mind blowing. Alice falls into another world, one that changes like a dream but whereas we as actors of our dreams change along them. Instead Alice lives them quite consciously, as one of those old memories of strange events or creatures you saw, in which you are not that sure if it actually happened or, being that fantastic, it was a reverie feed by being in an unfamiliar place.

⭐ It is really beautiful edition printed on a high quality paper for any admirer of Alice adventures and/or Dali’s art. His paintings illustrate each chapter and are printed on the third page from the beginning of each chapter. It is so thrilling to look at each picture during reading the chapter and trying to figure what and why Dali decided to paint.Dali’s art is not everything what this edition has to offer. There are two pieces of introduction which I found very interesting. First one is written by Mark Burstain explaining why the surrealists were so interested in Carroll book and the second one of Thomas Banchoff who actually met with Dali many times and provided us with some of stories about the genius. Both of them helped me better understand the madness of Dali, or as Carroll and the surrealists preferred to address: the wisdom.

⭐ The Cheshire Cat. Down the rabbit hole. Mad hatter. Curiouser and curiouser. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!Even if you have never read “Alice in Wonderland,” some part of its charmingly nonsensical story has probably slipped into your head over the years. Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasy tale is a dreamlike adventure that breezily eschews plot, character development and any kind of logic… and between his cleverly nonsensical writing (“I daresay it’s a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror”) and surrealist adventures, it is absolutely perfect that way. How many books can say that?A bored young girl named Alice is by a riverbank when a White Rabbit runs by, fretting, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” and checking the watch from his waistcoat. Unsurprisingly, Alice pursues the rabbit down a rabbit-hole… and ends up floating down a deep tunnel to a strange place full of locked doors. There’s also a cake and a little bottle with labels instructing you to eat or drink them, which cause Alice to either shrink or grow exponentially.As she continues pursuing the rabbit (who seems to think she’s someone named Mary Ann), Alice quickly discovers that Wonderland is a place where logic and reason have very, very little influence — talking animals in a Caucus-race, a hookah-smoking Caterpillar, even more bizarre growth potions, a grinning cat, the Duchess and her indestructible pig-baby, eternal tea-time with the March Hare and the Mad Hatter (plus the Dormouse), and finally the court of the Queen and King of Hearts.”Alice in Wonderland” is one of those rare books that actually is more enjoyable and readable because it’s pure nonsense, without more than a shred of plot or even proper narrative structure. The entire story is essentially Alice wandering from one wacky scenario to another in Wonderland, meeting more violently weird people with every stop and finding herself entangled in all sorts of surreal situations. It doesn’t really lead anywhere, or come from anywhere.And yet, this works perfectly — it’s all about nonsense, and a coherent plot or developed characters would get in the way of that. Never has such a perfect depiction of a weird dream been turned into fiction, especially since Alice regards everything that happens with a sort of perplexed detachment. Even though NOTHING in Wonderland makes sense (vanishing cats, talking animals, arguing playing-cards painting roses, the Hatter convinced that it is six o’clock all day every day), she addresses everything with a sense of bemused internal logic (“I’ve had nothing yet, so I can’t take more”).And Carroll festoons this wacky little tale with puns (“We called his Tortoise because he taught us”), odd snatches of mutilated poetry (“Twinkle, twinkle, little bat/how I wonder what you’re at”) and tangled snarls of eccentric logic that only works if you’re technically insane (so… flamingoes are like mustard?). This keeps the plotless story as sparkling and swift-moving as a mountain stream laced with LSD, so the mind never has a chance to get bored by Alice simply wandering around, growing and shrinking, and engaged in a string of conversations with loopy people.”Alice in Wonderland” is a mad, mad, mad, mad experience — and between Carroll’s sparkling dialogue and enchantingly surreal story, it’s also a lot of fun. Never a dull moment… except the wait to read “Through the Looking Glass.”

⭐ This book is so full of fun and nonsensical chatter it will lighten up your day.I bought this book because this is the 150th anniversary of “Alice In Wonderland.” I read this book many timeswhen I was a child. I went online to Amazon Books and found the copy I wanted. The book came right on time, beautiful cover, and paper cover. I put a book cover on the book right away.The paper is heavy, easy for a small child to handle, good for adults to have as a keeper. The colored pictures arebeautiful, vibrant colors, full of life to take a child and even a grown up into the wonderful world of Alice. Acharming book full of beautiful pictures and drawings of whimsical animals and people cards. The wording isexactly as it was when Lewis Carroll wrote the story 150 years ago, no changes, nothing left out.Ms Bond’s Rifle Paper Co. has done a great job on this children’s classic as do her illustrations and brightlycolored designs. Before I bought the book, I looked into Amazon customers comments about different copies.This is the one I thought best for me.Ms Bond has worked to put this beautiful “Alice in Wonderland” edition together in honor of her son.

⭐ Such a beautiful book. I wish the books actual hardcover was the same illustration as the paper dust jacket because I prefer that one.. but I’m afraid if I leave it on it’ll get ripped. Will probably just take it off when I’m reading and reapply it when I display it on a shelf.

⭐ It is a book often cited for its use of chapter/scene breaks. As such, I used it as reference material. It worked for the intended purpose. Great book and story; however, I was more focused on the scene breaks and how they were executed.I appreciate that Amazon has classic literary books in its library on kindle. Having access to such novels on-demand in one place, without having to make a purchase or visit a library is excellent. Yes, it is a good story. But I did not reread the entire book when I borrowed it this time. I have in the past.The one issue I have with the classic literature on Amazon is I wonder if the publishers get paid fairly. I browsed the novel for scene breaks. I did not read the entire book this time. But that had value to me, and I feel that amount was just as significant as someone reading for enjoyment. Classic novels used as reference material may end up with poor analytics if Amazon is not considering that use case, and inadequate funding.I decided to give it five stars. In large part because I want Amazon to know that the reference use case for their library of classic books exists, and may affect analytics.

⭐ Slightly more challenging for my 9 year old daughter to read than CRG’s Cinderella. However, that could be because the print is much smaller and she’s adjusting to a new prescription eyeglass. Artwork is spectacular as we knew it would be. And it does appear to be the classic Lewis Carrol from what I remember but it’s probably been 25 years since I read it so ‍♀️ What’s really nice is you can find these used in excellent condition here on Amazon for a nice price. With schooling at home she reads more and I’m not trying to spend tons on books if I don’t have to. I do want her to have all the CRG illustrated fairytales. She enjoys the classic stories every kid should grow up reading and the illustration instills a appreciation for unique artwork styles. I have considered buying 2nd copies for the kids to cut up for a collage art project for their room at some point too if I run across more used copies.

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