Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Author: Lewis Carroll | Language: English | ISBN:
0486275434 | Format: PDF
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Description
One of the most popular and most quoted books in English, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), a distinguished scholar, mathematician and author who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Written for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the wonderfully fantastic tale is credited with revolutionizing children's literature and liberating it from didactic constraints.
The story is deeply but gently satiric, enlivened with an imaginative plot and brilliant use of nonsense, as it relates Alice's adventures in a bizarre, topsy-turvy land underground. There she encounters a cast of strange characters and fanciful beasts, including the White Rabbit, March Hare, Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse and grinning Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, the dreadful Queen of Hearts and a host of other unusual creatures. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Paperback: 86 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications; Reprint edition (May 20, 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0486275434
- ISBN-13: 978-0486275437
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
After watching the Korean composer Unsuk Chin's disappointing opera Alice in Wonderland, I decided to go back and read the original book. In spite of general familiarity with the Alice plot as part of popular culture, I had never read Lewis Carroll's 1865 children's story and instead knew its plot twists and cast of characters only in film or operatic adaptation or allusions in other literary works.
Everyone is here: the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar with a hookah, the Cheshire Cat and a Queen of Hearts who is awfully fond of ordering the beheading of her subjects. You get silly little mixups of language like the following:
'They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle said: 'no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'
'Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great surprise.
'Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: 'why, if a fish came to ME, and told me he was going a journey, I should say "With what porpoise?"'
'Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice.
'I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone.
It is curious how Caroll's work has had enormous appeal in Europe and even further abroad in spite of its abundance of presumably untranslatable English puns.
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