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Alice's Adventures Under Ground

by Lewis Carroll

Series: Alice's Adventures (0)

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This edition of the story of the little girl who falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters is illustrated by the author himself.
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Such a cool copy of Carrol’s original story. Also an amazing document showing his handwriting and drawings. ( )
  caseybp | Dec 26, 2023 |
I'm having an Alice binge at the moment and decided i needed to go back to the very beginning of the story to see how it came about.

This book is great, not just having the original story, but also letters to and from the author at the time. A wonderful piece of literary history.

And now i'm straight into 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', which is the re-written and fleshed out edition of this original.

Definitely something all adults should go back and read - and learn not to take things too seriously. ( )
  5t4n5 | Aug 9, 2023 |
Limited edition reprint, leather-bound, of the manuscript as it was presented to Alice Liddell, which later became the story of Alice inWonderland.
  tepunamatauranga | Apr 13, 2022 |
An early book that was afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Much of the familiar story of Alice in Wonderland. There are slight differences. ( )
  nx74defiant | Mar 5, 2022 |
Cute, mildly interesting - more for its history than for the story. It's not quite all of Alice in Wonderland (which is apparently almost twice as long), but all the events are in that story, though not necessarily in the same order. It's missing some major bits - the Cheshire Cat and the whole Mad Tea Party, for one. The drawings are nice - he may not have thought of himself as good at sketching, but his people look like people both in profile and in full-face, which is more than I can say for a lot of people sketching today (including me). They look like just ink drawings, though I suspect he either pasted them in after he got a good version or copied them from a good version. Other than the sketches, and I suppose the handwriting, there's not much that stands out about the book. The foreword and intro, by Alice's granddaughter and...an editor of the facsimile edition? Russell Ash, not sure - are interesting too, two takes on the history of this manuscript. Glad I read it, I see no need to read it again. ( )
  jjmcgaffey | Feb 4, 2019 |
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Introduction to 2008 facsimile by Sally Brown -- Describing the inspiration for his magical 'fairy-tale', Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson -- later to be celebrated throughout the world as Lewis Carroll -- wrote in 1888....
Chapter 1 -- 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 pictures or conversations in it, and where is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?
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This is the original Alice as presented in manuscript to Alice Liddell - please do not combine with "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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