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For books that are all about surprising transformations, it should perhaps be no real surprise that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are among the most...
Jun 21, 2019 · You should read Alice in Wonderland to know the original and understand the new works more fully. Interpreted in it your own way . Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland can be interpreted in many ways!
May 23, 2020 · In telling the story behind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the starting point at least is not in doubt: that “golden afternoon” of July 4 1862, when on a boat trip from Oxford up the ...
- Lorien Kite
- Striking A Blow Against The Adult World
- A Champion of Childhood
- ‘The Carroll Myth’
- Trolling Pieties
The story begins with bored, seven-year-old Alice sitting on a riverbank with her older sister. Alice doesn’t care for the book her sister is reading because it doesn’t have pictures. She falls asleep and follows a dapper but flustered rabbit down a rabbit hole and into Wonderland. In Wonderland she moves through a series of surreal vignettes in wh...
The West does have a long history of romanticising childhood. Wordsworth, in his 1807 Immortality Ode, writes: But even if the “romantic childhood” is a creation of bourgeois 19th century England — of the likes of Wordsworth and Carroll — it is a powerful and arguably noble notion. So let us follow it a little farther down the rabbit hole. While Al...
However, beyond Alice and Wonderland is Carroll himself. As Karoline Leach writes, in her remarkable book about “the Carroll myth”, at the centre of Alice lies, “the image of Carroll; a haunting presence in the story, a shifting dreamy impression of golden afternoons, fustiness, mystery, oars dripping in sun-rippling water.” Lewis Carroll is the pe...
Beyond the banter and the homage to childhood, we are drawn back to Alice because it contains a timeless contribution to the 1860s version of our own culture wars. Where we have political correctness, the 19th century Anglophone world had its own buzz-killing piety, at times foisted upon children — and adults — through verse. David Bates, a 19th ce...
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- It’s Just Plain Fun. Alice in Wonderland is fun! It’s fun to read, fun to watch, fun to play in video games – just plain fun! After all, who doesn’t love the story of a precocious young girl getting into crazy scenarios and using sass, tears, nonsense, and logic to get out of them?
- It’s Short and Easy to Read. Another thing that makes Alice so popular is how easy it is to read. It has fewer than 30,000 words, translating to fewer than 100 pages in some editions, which makes it a quick read, especially for a chapter book.
- It’s Accessible For All Ages, Races, and Languages. The book is also widely accessible to anyone who wants to read it. That is more than just because of all the reprintings and retellings for younger kids, too.
- The Characters and Scenes Are Immersive and Memorable. When Carroll wrote his Wonderland stories, he created some of the most iconic characters imaginable.
In many ways the tale of a child slipping underwater into an alternate world of fantasy, where the Victorian world is curiously inverted, foreshadows Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, although Carroll came up with his story independently, before Kingsley’s novel was published.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, widely beloved British children’s book by Lewis Carroll, published in 1865. With its fantastical tales and riddles, it became one of the most popular works of English-language fiction. It was notably illustrated by British artist John Tenniel.
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