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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

    Written by Lewis Carroll

    Narrated by Christoper Plummer

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    This special edition brings together both of Lewis Carroll’s marvelous tales set in the whimsical world beyond the looking glass and down the rabbit hole. Caroll’s first novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, finds Alice stuck in Wonderland, surrounded by curious creatures and with no idea of how to return home. With questionable aid from the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, Alice eventually finds her way back home. But the enigmatic Alice can’t stay away for long, and she finds herself back in Wonderland in the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.

    Most adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s beloved books have combined the stories featured in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, including the 1951 animated Disney film Alice in Wonderland. More recently, director Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010), starring Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp, used Wonderland lore to create an entirely new storyline about Alice and many of the other characters made famous by Carroll’s novels.

    HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 2, 2010
    ISBN9780061996856
    Author

    Lewis Carroll

    Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted and entranced children for over a hundred years. Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he studied at Christ Church College, Oxford where he became a mathematics lecturer. The Alice stories were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of his college

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    • 5/5
      Book Description In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books–with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.–by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children’s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing up–or down, or all turned round–as seen through the expert eyes of a child.

      My Review This book is an enjoyable read for all years from 2 to 99 years old. It is a fantastic and fun read and should be read to children and grandchildren and handed down from generation to generation. Reading it as an adult, the symbolism is very noticeable in the narration. If you haven't read Alice before, you should not hesitate as it should not be missed!
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite books. I love the imagination of Carroll and the way the book is written. It's just fun and charming.
    • 5/5
      Alice falls down the rabbit hole and finds a Wonderland of delightful nonsense.This is a favorite from childhood.Read as a child (1970s).
    • 5/5
      In the book, Alice searches for the white rabbit and encounters many interesting characters that help her through the crazed world she is put into. She meets infamous characters from classic novels and new characters she has never seen before. Alice also has many frightening things happen to her. She eats mushrooms and candies that change her size, she almost drowns in her own tears, and she is chased by playing cards that are out to behead her. It is a wonderful tale involving symbolism, intriguing characters, and wonder.
    • 5/5
      A classic work of fantasy; I highly recommend The Annotated Alice, which reveals the logic puzzles and satire buried in the nonsense.
    • 2/5
      I had a terrible time trying to read this as a kid. It made no sense to me at all, and I didn't enter into the spirit of the nonsense one bit -- I thought it was all incredibly stupid, and I couldn't understand the fuss at all. This time, trying to read it for a class, I found it more of interest just because I was thinking about the way it's constructed, the audience, the themes which I think do come through the nonsense. (For example, the issue of identity is undeniable, with Alice constantly wondering whether she's the same person as she was the day before.)But I'm afraid I still don't feel particularly enthusiastic. It really does seem to be nonsense mostly for the sake of nonsense, in many ways, and I've never got on with that.
    • 5/5
      Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll appears to be an innocent fairy tale filled with cartoon-like characters, but it is a story that depicts how a young child deals with the baffling issues of growing up. Carroll views children as vulnerable, and presents Alice with many dangers, including death. Her journey through adolescence is represented as a confusing dream through Wonderland. She is thrown into a whole new world, requiring her to make choices and decisions, which could mean the difference between life and death. Should she drink from the bottle labeled “drink me” beautifully printed on it, or could this be poison? Alice would not be so quick to make such a decision. Being the wise little girl that she was, she was sure to look first, before she leapt.
    • 4/5
      "Who are you?" demands the hookah-smoking Caterpillar in Alice's Adventures, a question surely she would never have been asked in her Victorian schoolroom without being sure that, along with a demur and respectful courtsey, the correct reply was "Alice, Sir". But in these two wonderful childrens' books the starched formalities and robotic recitations of schooling no longer cut the mustard. Alice must look in at herself to reveal the true answers to those questions. Repression in action but let's continue to see the fantastic invention and innocence and hope poor Alice wasn't being groomed.
    • 4/5
      This edition contains both of Lewis Carroll's timeless children's classics, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. What I love about these stories is the way that Lewis Carroll plays with words. His characters often use homophones to totally change the meanings of what they are talking about which make these stories so much fun. Also, as I read through the stories, I thought of what it was like as a child to wake up in the middle of a dream. Our dreams can be so vivid that they seem real, and yet sometimes what we dream about can be so totally ridiculous that it is funny. Carroll's stories remind me, to some extent, of dreams that I have had in the past. In dreams, cards can come to life or you can be a part of a living chess game. You can grow and shrink in size, and you can speak with Humpty Dumpty, or a caterpillar smoking a hookah. Also, when you finally become frustrated in a dream, you can decide that it is 'nothing but a pack of cards!' and wake up.
    • 5/5
      SLOW DOWN. This book is full of stories you think you know from the cobbling together of many movie versions and society's collective memories, and it jumps from one bit of nonsense to another, so it's easy, particularly as an adult, to dash through it like a white rabbit. But, though these works were ostensibly written to a young girl and are often treated as children's books (even by Carroll himself in the preface to a second edition of "Through the Looking-Glass," which is included in this volume), they are chock-full of ingenious language that you really need to stop and think about to truly appreciate. Lovely thing that, how the English don't write down to children. I've heard that "Alice" is some sort of allegory for the new mathematical ideas of the time. I don't know whether that's true. But from a linguistic standpoint alone, this book is a treasure trove. The poetry and punnery are second to none, and constructed not just with an eye on artistry, but with a real intent to comment on how language (and by extension society) works.The Barnes and Noble edition of this book is a great buy, featuring the original Tenniel illustrations and a very informative introduction. Unlike other volumes in the series, this one is not overly annotated, nor do the footnotes and endnotes presuppose that the reader must be seven years old. As always with these editions, the end of the book offers up works inspired by what you have just read, along with a variety of critical comments. As a 2004 edition, the former of these things is not up-to-date enough to acknowledge the recent Tim Burton adaptation, and is certainly not an exhaustive list anyway (after all, how could they forget the Star Trek episode "Shore Leave?"), but, as W. H. Auden suggests in the critical comments, Carroll is probably near the top of the list of the culture's "most frequently cited without attribution" authors, so where would one begin?
    • 5/5
      This has been an amazing journey with Alice. This book is so oddly smart, imaginative, original, thought-provoking, satirical, funny, weird, and fun.
      It is like nothing else that I have read. I am amazed <3
    • 5/5
      I think this may be my favorite book. I've re-read this book like 20 times and I love the weirdness and great imagery.
    • 3/5
      As ladonna37 states, this book would have been a good book to read as a child. It as a weird book that doesn't seem to have much to it than just being a weird story, and everything happens so quickly that it could easily hold the attention of a child. As for adults? It's a super quick read of a book you've heard about all your life, so just read it and find out for yourself.
    • 5/5
      A lovely edition of one of my favorite stories of all time. I must read this at least once a year to remain sane.
    • 5/5
      [This review is in regards to the facsimile edition published by Engage.]This facsimile edition is an answer to my prayers! I wanted desperately to find an edition of Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There that maintained Sir John Tenniel's classic illustrations, was not an oversized book loaded with every other thing he ever wrote (thus making for a book impossible to lift, with text too small to actually read) and also without any distracting footnotes or snide introductions, and this is that book! It preserves the formating of the original books, with large clear typeface that does funny things (i.e. the mouse's tail) when required. This is the perfect edition to get your children to read (and every child should get to read Alice). It's also the most fun edition for an adult who just wants to experience the pleasure of reading these lovely stories, and not be bogged down with footnotes that try to explain every little detail of Victorian society. This is my favourite edition of the Alice books and I can't recommend it enough!If you've never read the Alice books, they are wondrous fun, as bizarre as any child's dreams, free and whimsically told, not concerned with making sense, although occasionally some profound insight on the nature of childhood or adulthood or the fabric of reality, is revealed. It's full of fun poems and lovely illustrations. The two Alice books are my favourite books of all time.
    • 4/5
      Love it, dark and satirical.
    • 4/5
      Having first read Alice as a child - whilst sick with tonsilitis - I never really fully appreciated it.
      There is perhaps some irony in the fact that I enjoyed Alice more as an adult than a child.
      Carroll's use of language puns and nonsense is extremely clever and entertaining and definitely my favourite aspect of the book. Exposing the inadequacies and ambiguities of the English language as a means of highlighting the illogical and confusing nature of Wonderland and the land Through the Looking Glass works perfectly. I loves these stories!
    • 5/5
      It's saturday, it's cold and it's raining, so of course I had to stay in bed and re-read my ultimate comfort book ♥ the only problem is that now I'm yet again left craving tea and bread-and-butter.
    • 2/5
      Pretty disappointed with the book. :(

      I thought I would like it a lot but so many of jumping around and constant changing that made me feel like I got lost...several times. Had a hard time to stay motivated to read but I did finish the book.
    • 5/5
      I have just finished reading this book only a few weeks back actually. I really enjoyed for many reasons. It's very creative, humorous at times, and a book anyone can enjoy or relate to at having strange dreams and visions. The characters are very interesting. My favorites are Alice, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and Tweedledee and Tweedledum. I found it somewhat disappointing at the end when all of it was a dream though. If you asked which one of the two I favored; Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass I would tell you I liked them both the same. They aren't that different. They have the same setting, protagonist, and they're both dreams. I was fortunate enough to see the Disney movie version in 3D just yesterday and I highly recommend both books, and the movie if you ever get the chance to see it. As of who I would recommend it to you might ask, I would recommend it to girls of all ages fifth grade and up. If you have read it when you were young, read it again in adulthood and according to my father you will have a differing opinion! I hope you read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
    • 5/5
      Both Alice books in one volume, with illustrations by Mervyn Peake (author of Gormenghast) and introductions by Will Self and Zadie Smith.
    • 5/5
      This is one of my lifetime favorite books. The Alice stories never grow old and I learn more about them every time I read them. That is one of the hallmarks of classic literature and these two novels are part of that pantheon.
    • 5/5
      Alice in Wonderland was the first book I remember reading after learning to read. It was time to revisit it! There’s nothing quite like this fantasy about a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole and meets all manner of strange creatures and adventures. I was just as delighted this time around as I was as a child. I don’t recall ever having read Through the Looking Glass before, although I am very familiar with many of its characters and elements. I’ve had Jabberwocky memorized since high school, when my choir performed a musical adaptation.The stories might initially seem like pointless nonsense, but both are journey/exploration stories. Alice overcomes a series of obstacles in her first journey of exploration, such as growing very large and shrinking very small. In her second adventure, Alice is trying to reach the eighth square in order to become a queen in the living chess game she finds herself in.Alice in Wonderland gets a full five stars. Through the Looking Glass doesn’t have quite the same magic, so I give it four stars.
    • 1/5
      I have no idea what to write except to say; I just did not like "Through the Looking Glass" and I couldn't wait until it was ended.I fared a bit better with "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", but I found Alice to be a quite rude & arrogant little girl.What I did like, were the illustrations, which I'll use on my ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) as well as the text, which is why I'm rating this 1 star.
    • 3/5
      Digital audiobook performed by Christopher PlummerBelieve or not, I had never read this classic of children’s literature before. Oh, I knew the basics of the story. And, of course, I had seen the Disney movie when I was a child. I even had one or two of the chapters included in a series of books I had as a child (and still have to this day). But it took a challenge to read a banned book to finally get me to crack this one open. I certainly understand why this story is so beloved by so many legions of children. There is absurdity, fun word play, unusual situations, talking animals, and a slew of outlandish characters. Still, I think I just too old to really appreciate it. I was bored with much of the craziness. I just couldn’t let my imagination run wild and enjoy it. Christopher Plummer does a fabulous job of narrating the audio version, however! His gift for many voices and accents added to the experience; I absolutely LOVED the way he voiced the white rabbit. Also, there is a bonus chapter at the end – an alternate ending to the knight’s tale that Carroll wrote but which was never published. I’d rate Plummer’s audio performance 5***** (but I won’t increase the overall rating).
    • 4/5
      Alice plummets down a rabbit hole in the first part of this bind-up edition of Lewis Carroll's classic children's novels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871), and she steps through a mirror in the second. In both cases she finds herself in a fantastical alternate world, encountering extraordinary creatures and having a series of surreal adventures...Despite their status as towering classics in the field of children's literature, and the undoubted influence they have had on that literature and on the wider culture, I had never read either Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass until they were assigned as texts in my masters course. I was pleased to be given the impetus I apparently needed in picking them up, as they had long been on my to-read list. The stories themselves were every bit as delightful as I'd hoped they'd be, the accompanying artwork by John Tenniel was lovely. This particular edition, from Oxford University Press, included a wealth of critical notes, which proved invaluable in helping to bring to light many significant details which might otherwise have eluded me. The significance of Carroll's parodies of well-known poetry from Isaac Watts, for instance, might otherwise have escaped me. We had an interesting discussion about these books in my class, and whether they could still be considered children's literature, given that today's children would miss so much of what made them entertaining to their 19th-century counterparts. For my part, I think they can still be enjoyed by children, even though I myself didn't read them when young. I highly recommend the stories themselves to all readers, and I recommend this Oxford publication to readers looking for a good critical edition.
    • 3/5
      A great classic.
    • 5/5
      An excellent work of art! I actually took a class in college that focused solely on this work for the entire semester! I didn't think it could possibly retain any interest beyond a few weeks, but I was wrong. This is a masterfully many layered work and one can read it on many levels. Recommended!
    • 5/5
      This is my favorite book EVER! Love the stories, love the nonsense, the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter..the tea party scene...the rhymes and the little children songs turned to Lewis Carroll's thinking way. AWE-SOME!! It's my fave ever!

      Really! Own them all!!!
    • 4/5
      This is a really beautiful recording of Lewis Carroll's classic children's books. In the first, Alice sees a rabbit wearing a waistcoat, who pulls a watch out of his pocket and frets about being late, and she follows him down his rabbit hole. She finds herself in a surreal and comical landscape, with food that makes her shrink or grow when eaten, talking animals, a cat that appears and disappears in stages, and a royal court composed of a deck of cards ruled by the King and Queen of Hearts.

      In the second, on a dark winter day, Alice walks through a looking glass that has turned to mist, into the mirror house. Once through, she finds that outside the range of what's visible in the mirror, it's very different indeed. Here, she finds herself in a chess game, with living Red and White chess pieces, as well as talking flowers, fairy tale creatures such as Humpty Dumpty, and even the food served at a fancy dinner party speaks and has personality. Also, here, it's summer, not winter.

      Whether you've read Alice's adventures before or not, this is a delightful listen.

      Recommended.

      I received a free copy of this audiobook from the publisher.