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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

by Lewis Carroll

Other authors: Maraja (Illustrator)

Other authors: See the other authors section.

Series: Alice's Adventures (1)

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    Ciruelo: Really. Both are classic studies in the workings of power.
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Last read it about 10 years ago. Difficult to read without visualising the Disney version to myself. ( )
  Robertgreaves | May 2, 2023 |
An abridged but marvelous re-telling of this story. It shows a smart girl in a green pinafore with an apron who strives to make sense of an uncertain world. She is courageous and undaunted. And the illustrations are soft and sweet, a contrast to the satire and confusing themes in the original. ( )
  threadnsong | Apr 30, 2023 |
A quick audiobook that was more fun than I thought it would be having never read this book before. Loved the narration. ( )
  LisaBergin | Apr 12, 2023 |
There is no way I was going to let the sesquicentenary of the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland pass without revisiting this longstanding favourite. I devoured this book as a child (almost literally, as I had a paper-nibbling habit when I was little) and have re-read it many times as an adult. My favourite edition would have to be Martin Gardner's Annotated Alice, as Gardner did such a great job of giving us insight into Carroll's text.

For this outing I was lucky enough to get hold of a version of a rarity: the Swedish version illustrated by Tove Jansson, another childhood favourite of mine, reprinted recently with the English text.

There is no point reviewing the novel, as everybody surely knows it, so I will just comment on the illustrations, which were my main reason for selecting this edition. Jansson's Alice looks like a more modern girl than John Tenniel's prim and proper Victorian in her starched petticoats. The style seems to me more dream-like than the Tenniel drawings, which seem quite naturalistic to me, and possible better suited to the narrative. Where Jansson really has fun is in crowd scenes such as the caucus-race and the trial, where she works in a whole range of little creatures that she endows with great expression. I liked this set of illustrations a lot, although I doubt that anything can displace Tenniel's work as people's mental images of this book.
  gjky | Apr 9, 2023 |
I've probably read Alice more than 100 times, but I was keen to see this edition. I had heard for many years that there was a very limited and expensive edition of the book with illustrations by Salvador Dali. This edition, released for the 150th anniversary of publication, is the first commercial edition to include Dali's illustrations.

I'm assuming that everybody knows Carroll's story, so I will concentrate on Dali's contribution. It actually feels strange to read this book without Tenniel's original drawings; they form an indelible part of my memory of the book and have firmly defined the characters and scenes in Carroll's story for generations of readers. Tenniel's drawing is about as naturalistic as you can get in a story this wild; Dali's work is a huge difference. Dali doesn't really try to illustrate scenes literally; his illustrations are dreamscapes where characters from different parts of the novel appear and the action is only suggested. Motifs from his own work appear; the illustration for the tea party includes a melting watch, a perfect reference to the Mad Hatter's difficulties with Time.

The illustrations are packed with scribbles and splashes and are as incoherent as most dreams are. Given that the whole story is a dream (or several) this seems appropriate and Dali brings out some of the scary elements in the story that Tenniel glossed over. The reader feels the need to examine each picture closely to tease out the relationship to the storyline, which makes this quite a different experience for those who may feel that they have done this book to death. ( )
  gjky | Apr 9, 2023 |
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It's just a delicious, borderline hallucinatory, confection of a book. Invention and imagination tumble over each other in the excitement, and there is something in there to delight every reader. There are countless plays on words (the mouse giving a very dry lecture on William the Conqueror to restore those who have been soaked by Alice's gigantic tears is the one that, for some reason, pleased me most), verbal pyrotechnics and semantic shenanigans to please the "ordinary" reader. And although they entirely passed me by at the time, I know now from various more scientifically-minded friends that their childish interests snagged on the mathematician author's various numerical and logic puzzles.
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Carroll, Lewisprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
MarajaIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Andriesse-van de Zande, GonneTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Attwell, Mabel LucieIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
尚紀, 柳瀬Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Barro, TeresaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bond, AnnaIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Browne, AnthonyIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dalí, SalvadorIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dale, JimNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dalziel, EdwardIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dalziel, GeorgeIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dautremer, RébeccaIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Delacour, GuillaumeCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Demurova, Nina MikhaĭlovnaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dobson, AustinForewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Engelsman, SofiaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Enzensberger, ChristianTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Everson, MichaelEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Fanu, Brinsley LeIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Foreman, MichaelIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Garcia, Alex S.Editorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Garcia, Camille RoseIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gattégno, JeanEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ghiuselev, IassenIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Goodacre, Selwyn H.Editorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hague, MichaelIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hall, DavidIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Harrison, B.J.Narratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Herbauts, AnneIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hicks-Jenkins, CliveIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hildebrandt, GregIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hopp, ZinkenTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ingpen, RobertIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Jansson, ToveIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Johansson, ScarlettNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Johnstone, Anne GrahameIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Johnstone, Janet GrahameIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kearney, E.L.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kennel, MoritzIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kincaid, EricIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kincaid, James R.Preface & Notessecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kusama, YayoiIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lipchenko, OlegIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mann, EleonoraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Marsh, JamesCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Matsier, NicolaasTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Matthews, RodneyIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Morrison-Smyth, AnneTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Moser, BarryIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Nabokov, VladimirTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
O'Keefe, GavinIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Oven-van Doorn, M.C. vanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Oxenbury, HelenIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Parisot, HenriTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pérez-Barreiro, FernandoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Peake, MervynIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pogány, WillyIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Porter, DavinaNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Raa, R. tenTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rackham, ArthurIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Riddell, ChrisIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rieder, FloorIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rolen, J. MichaelIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
RoothcivCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rountree, HarryIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schermelé, WillyIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Seelbach-Caspari, BrigitteIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Segur, AdrienneIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Self, WillIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sibley, BrianAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Steadman, RalphIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Strasser, IngridTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Swan, AnniTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Tarrant, Margaret W.Illustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Tenniel, JohnIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Todd, JustinIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
van Sandwyk, CharlesIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Weevers, PeterIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
West, WallaceIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Woodward, Alice B.Illustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Zimmermann, AntonieTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Zwerger, LisbethIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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Epigraph
All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretense
Our wanderings to guide

Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour,
Beneath such dreamy weather,
To beg a tale of breath too weak
To stir the tiniest feather!
Yet that can one poor voice avail
Against three tongues together!

[plus another five verses]
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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 what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
Quotations
And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); ...
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earl of Mercia and Northumbria -"'
'You are old, Father William,' the young man said,
'And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head -
Do you think, at your age, it is right?'


[plus another seven verses]
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This is the unabridged "Alice in Wonderland", a separate work from "Through the Looking Glass" - also, please do not combine with any abridged edition or adaptation.
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До видання увійшли обидві прославлені книги Льюїса Керрола — «Аліса в Країні Див» та «Аліса в Задзеркаллі». Доречні і вишукані ілюстрації Владислава Єрка, як завжди, вражають.
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Down the rabbit hole,
Alice ponders madness that
unfolds strange places.
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