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(3.98) | 2 / 1018 | A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. |
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 Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) » Add other authors (661 possible) Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Carroll, Lewis | — | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Andriesse-van de Zande, Gonne | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Attwell, Mabel Lucie | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | 尚紀, 柳瀬 | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Barro, Teresa | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Bond, Anna | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Browne, Anthony | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Dalí, Salvador | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Dale, Jim | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Dalziel, Edward | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Dalziel, George | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Dautremer, Rébecca | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Delacour, Guillaume | Cover artist | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Demurova, Nina Mikhaĭlovna | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Dobson, Austin | Foreword | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Engelsman, Sofia | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Enzensberger, Christian | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Everson, Michael | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Fanu, Brinsley Le | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Foreman, Michael | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Garcia, Alex S. | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Garcia, Camille Rose | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Gattégno, Jean | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Ghiuselev, Iassen | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Hague, Michael | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Hall, David | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Harrison, B.J. | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Herbauts, Anne | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Hicks-Jenkins, Clive | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Hildebrandt, Greg | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Hopp, Zinken | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Ingpen, Robert | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Jansson, Tove | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Johansson, Scarlett | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Johnstone, Anne Grahame | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Johnstone, Janet Grahame | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Kearney, E.L. | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Kennel, Moritz | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Kincaid, Eric | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Kusama, Yayoi | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Lacombe, Benjamin | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Lipchenko, Oleg | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Mann, Eleonora | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Marsh, James | Cover artist | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Matsier, Nicolaas | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Matthews, Rodney | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Morrison-Smyth, Anne | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Nabokov, Vladimir | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | O'Keefe, Gavin | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Oven-van Doorn, M.C. van | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Oxenbury, Helen | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Parisot, Henri | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Pérez-Barreiro, Fernando | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Peake, Mervyn | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Pogány, Willy | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Porter, Davina | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Raa, R. ten | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Rackham, Arthur | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Riddell, Chris | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Rieder, Floor | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Rolen, J. 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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!
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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?"  | |
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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]  'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you get to the end: then stop.'  Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court. — the King of Heart  Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late! — the White Rabbit  `I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, `because I'm not myself, you see.'  | |
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Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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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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▾Book descriptions A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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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. (@kristilabrie)  | |
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Ingpen, comments that he was inspired as a child by the illustrations in the original and my impression is that the work in this book is a labour of love not just a contract to produce illustrations for a kid's book.
No point here going into details about the story of Alice. They are too well known ....though, I suspect that a lot of children (like me) found the book more or less impenetrable and really written for adults with its "in" jokes, puzzles, and mathematical conundrums. One thing that I found out from this version was that there have been more than 200 editions of Alice published over the years....so, maybe I'm excused for having just 5 of them in my collection.
I assume that the text is true to the original but short of cross-checking line by line I just have to take that at face value. But Ingpen has added a massive amount of Illustrations. I did a brief sampling/count of illustrations (counting a double page spread as two illustrations and it averaged out that about 80% of the pages have an illustration......many of them full page or double page. So it kinds of emphasises Alice's question: "What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" In this case...the illustrations massively contribute to the tale.
Happy to award five stars to this book. I really like it. (