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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to 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?”’ So begins the tale of Alice, following a curious White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole and falling into Wonderland. A fantastical place, where nothing is quite as it animals talk, nonsensical characters confuse, Mad Hatter's throw tea parties and the Queen plays croquet. Alice's attempts to find her way home become increasingly bizarre, infuriating and amazing in turn. A beloved classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has continued to delight readers, young and old for over a century.
176 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2010
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About the author
Lewis Carroll
6,186 books8,532 followersThe Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.
His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.
Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.
He also has works published under his real name.
His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.
Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.
He also has works published under his real name.
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May 2, 2025
Classics, nonsense.
November 2, 2024
This reminds me of my first short stories then in the end I pulled ,,and then the main character woke up" thing
March 14, 2024
Boy does that girl know how to dream. I should have been taking notes
April 23, 2026
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is perfect whole collection of Alice's Adventures written by Lewis Carroll.
Lewis Carroll was pseudonym of the author Charles Ludwidge Dodgson.
Charles Ludwidge Dodgson published this work under that pseudonym, because he wished to maintain anonymity & so remain relatively immune to any criticism of his poetry & prose.
Alice's Adventures is masterpiece work.
This paperback was published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2010.
This book is consisted of 12 chapters with 2 bonuses: 1 prose & 1 poem
1. Down the Rabbit-Hole
2. The Pool of Tears
3. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
4. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
5. Advice from a Caterpillar
6. Pig and Pepper
7. A Mad Tea-Party
8. The Queen's Croquet-Ground
9. The Mock Turtle's Story
10. The Lobster Quadrille
11. Who Stole the Tarts?
12. Alice's Evidence
TWO BONUSES:
1. Prose, An Easter Greeting To Every Child who loves Alice
2. Poem, Christmas Greetings From a Fairy to a Child
Twelve chapters talk about Alice's story from the beginning to the end.
The story begins with Alice & with her sister during summer days.
Alice was tired, was sitting by her sister on the bank, she noticed that book of her sister was empty without pictures & without words. It was very hot day. Alice was very sleepy, but she took herself & went looking for daisies in the meadow. In that moment she met white rabbit. She didn't catch him. She followed him into the rabbit hole. There Alice was falling down long miles & then she fell into the dark well. That well was filled by with cupboards, with bookshelves. There were also maps & pictures. She was very hungry. She found orange marmalade, but it was empty.
Later Alice found way out. She got into long passage where, there were doors.
She found little key & she found little door about fifteen inches high.
That key fitted. She opened that door & got into another passage & found way out.
She got into loveliest garden, in which there were beautiful flowers & fountains.
In the garden She also found cake & she ate it...
Then Alice continued to searching way out from that Wonderland.
During her ways she met special creatures like Caterpillar, Pig, Mock Turtle, The Lobster Quadrille, Gryphon, Queen & King's card army.
The whole Alice's story ends by twelve chapter.
In that chapter Alice faced to trial in front of King, Queen & their Card's army.
They argued with philosophical nonsenses:
"What do you know about this business? The King said to Alice
Nothing said Alice.
Nothing whatever?' persisted the King.
Nothing whatever.' said Alice.
That's very important,' the King said turning to the jury...
'Unimportant, of course I meant,' the King hastily said,
and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important - unimportant - important -'
as if he were trying which word sounded best.
Some of the jury wrote it down 'important,' and some 'unimportant.'
Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates.
'But it doesn't matter a bit,' she thought to herself.
At this moment the King, who had been for some
time busily writing in his notebook, called out 'Silence!'
and read out from his book, 'Rule Forty-two. All persons
more than a mile high to leave the court.'
Everybody looked at Alice.
'I'm not a mile high,' said Alice.
'You are,' said the King.
'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen..."
Later for whole nonsense at judging. Queen argued with Alice. Queen wanted to kill Alice & Alice got anger:
"Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
I won't said Alice.
'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.
'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.).
You're nothing but a pack of cards!"
Alice shouted on them all & tried to beat them off.
Later Alice found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister:
"Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister. 'Why, what a long sleep you've had!'
'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could
remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about
and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said,
'It was a curious dream, dear, certainly:
but now run into your tea; it's getting late.'
So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran,
as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been."
Alice as main character of the stories Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is not only story character.
But Alice was real character.
Lewis Caroll had the best friend, his colleague Henry Liddell.
Henry Liddel had 3 daughters:
Lorina
Alice
Edith
Lewis Caroll had the best friendship with Alice.
Alice wrote those beautiful stories.
It was Lewis Caroll who helped Alice for writing work Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
It took him three years to complete the manuscript to his satisfaction & to finally have the book published in 1865.
The book had great success in Victorian society.
Later in 1871 Lewis Caroll published new book about Alice, titled Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
This work was made thanks to Alice Liddell, where they discussed what it might be like to enter the reflected world in a mirror.
This second book was successful as the first, too.
Interesting on this whole story about Alice is.
That Alice loved fantasy world.
Lewis Caroll loved fantasy world, too.
They shared mutual thoughts & opinions about Parallel worlds behind this Universe.
We know very well this world work on two principles:
Atman & Brahman
Atman refers for internal world of human (thinking, Mind, creativity)
Brahman refers for whole world of the Universe (all animals, all humans, whole nature...)
White rabbit in the story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland represents Angel.
This story is probably based on true events, when Alice during summer days got sun poisoning.
Alice was very tired & slept in the meadows.
During that sleeping. Alice got into long sleeping, similar to coma.
Alice slept very long time.
During that long sleeping Alice met those strange creatures like the white rabbit, Pig and Pepper, Caterpillar, Mock Turtle, Lobster Quadrille, King & Queen & Card's army.
Alice is a proof of that Parallel worlds exist.
First scholars were persuaded that lucid dreaming can be one of the ways how to connect with Divine world, how to connect with angels or how to connect with demons.
No doubt, that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is true story.
Lewis Carroll & Alice Liddell shared mutual world of the Universe & its Parallel words.
It is known that many people who got into coma.
They said about similar stories which were found in the work Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
This world & this whole Universe will be always one big mystery.
We can understand to Universe only when we will experiment with our thinking & with our dreams.
The Great Architect of the Universe put & hid many Gnostic keys into this world.
Some keys can be found in this book.
I can only recommend this book for each one who is interested in Parallel worlds & its philosophy.
Enjoy this book
With Love
Angela L.E. Komorovska
Lewis Carroll was pseudonym of the author Charles Ludwidge Dodgson.
Charles Ludwidge Dodgson published this work under that pseudonym, because he wished to maintain anonymity & so remain relatively immune to any criticism of his poetry & prose.
Alice's Adventures is masterpiece work.
This paperback was published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2010.
This book is consisted of 12 chapters with 2 bonuses: 1 prose & 1 poem
1. Down the Rabbit-Hole
2. The Pool of Tears
3. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
4. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
5. Advice from a Caterpillar
6. Pig and Pepper
7. A Mad Tea-Party
8. The Queen's Croquet-Ground
9. The Mock Turtle's Story
10. The Lobster Quadrille
11. Who Stole the Tarts?
12. Alice's Evidence
TWO BONUSES:
1. Prose, An Easter Greeting To Every Child who loves Alice
2. Poem, Christmas Greetings From a Fairy to a Child
Twelve chapters talk about Alice's story from the beginning to the end.
The story begins with Alice & with her sister during summer days.
Alice was tired, was sitting by her sister on the bank, she noticed that book of her sister was empty without pictures & without words. It was very hot day. Alice was very sleepy, but she took herself & went looking for daisies in the meadow. In that moment she met white rabbit. She didn't catch him. She followed him into the rabbit hole. There Alice was falling down long miles & then she fell into the dark well. That well was filled by with cupboards, with bookshelves. There were also maps & pictures. She was very hungry. She found orange marmalade, but it was empty.
Later Alice found way out. She got into long passage where, there were doors.
She found little key & she found little door about fifteen inches high.
That key fitted. She opened that door & got into another passage & found way out.
She got into loveliest garden, in which there were beautiful flowers & fountains.
In the garden She also found cake & she ate it...
Then Alice continued to searching way out from that Wonderland.
During her ways she met special creatures like Caterpillar, Pig, Mock Turtle, The Lobster Quadrille, Gryphon, Queen & King's card army.
The whole Alice's story ends by twelve chapter.
In that chapter Alice faced to trial in front of King, Queen & their Card's army.
They argued with philosophical nonsenses:
"What do you know about this business? The King said to Alice
Nothing said Alice.
Nothing whatever?' persisted the King.
Nothing whatever.' said Alice.
That's very important,' the King said turning to the jury...
'Unimportant, of course I meant,' the King hastily said,
and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important - unimportant - important -'
as if he were trying which word sounded best.
Some of the jury wrote it down 'important,' and some 'unimportant.'
Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates.
'But it doesn't matter a bit,' she thought to herself.
At this moment the King, who had been for some
time busily writing in his notebook, called out 'Silence!'
and read out from his book, 'Rule Forty-two. All persons
more than a mile high to leave the court.'
Everybody looked at Alice.
'I'm not a mile high,' said Alice.
'You are,' said the King.
'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen..."
Later for whole nonsense at judging. Queen argued with Alice. Queen wanted to kill Alice & Alice got anger:
"Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
I won't said Alice.
'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.
'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.).
You're nothing but a pack of cards!"
Alice shouted on them all & tried to beat them off.
Later Alice found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister:
"Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister. 'Why, what a long sleep you've had!'
'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could
remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about
and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said,
'It was a curious dream, dear, certainly:
but now run into your tea; it's getting late.'
So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran,
as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been."
Alice as main character of the stories Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is not only story character.
But Alice was real character.
Lewis Caroll had the best friend, his colleague Henry Liddell.
Henry Liddel had 3 daughters:
Lorina
Alice
Edith
Lewis Caroll had the best friendship with Alice.
Alice wrote those beautiful stories.
It was Lewis Caroll who helped Alice for writing work Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
It took him three years to complete the manuscript to his satisfaction & to finally have the book published in 1865.
The book had great success in Victorian society.
Later in 1871 Lewis Caroll published new book about Alice, titled Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
This work was made thanks to Alice Liddell, where they discussed what it might be like to enter the reflected world in a mirror.
This second book was successful as the first, too.
Interesting on this whole story about Alice is.
That Alice loved fantasy world.
Lewis Caroll loved fantasy world, too.
They shared mutual thoughts & opinions about Parallel worlds behind this Universe.
We know very well this world work on two principles:
Atman & Brahman
Atman refers for internal world of human (thinking, Mind, creativity)
Brahman refers for whole world of the Universe (all animals, all humans, whole nature...)
White rabbit in the story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland represents Angel.
This story is probably based on true events, when Alice during summer days got sun poisoning.
Alice was very tired & slept in the meadows.
During that sleeping. Alice got into long sleeping, similar to coma.
Alice slept very long time.
During that long sleeping Alice met those strange creatures like the white rabbit, Pig and Pepper, Caterpillar, Mock Turtle, Lobster Quadrille, King & Queen & Card's army.
Alice is a proof of that Parallel worlds exist.
First scholars were persuaded that lucid dreaming can be one of the ways how to connect with Divine world, how to connect with angels or how to connect with demons.
No doubt, that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is true story.
Lewis Carroll & Alice Liddell shared mutual world of the Universe & its Parallel words.
It is known that many people who got into coma.
They said about similar stories which were found in the work Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
This world & this whole Universe will be always one big mystery.
We can understand to Universe only when we will experiment with our thinking & with our dreams.
The Great Architect of the Universe put & hid many Gnostic keys into this world.
Some keys can be found in this book.
I can only recommend this book for each one who is interested in Parallel worlds & its philosophy.
Enjoy this book
With Love
Angela L.E. Komorovska
September 7, 2024
1.5! I know this is a children's book but the adaptations and the things that are inspired by Alice in wonderland are so much better than the book itself.
September 6, 2024
Very random most of the time. No clear plot. Makes sense in the end why it was all over the place. Reading this as an adult makes it seem very trippy.
May 22, 2023
classic, basic book. Alice annoyed the shit out of me and I was so mad that it was a dream I didn’t know that was part of it but yeah. It was well written but pretty boring as a book (barely any plot)
April 27, 2024
I understand why it's classic for kids. But as an adult who read it with objectivity, I didn't like it much.
I know if I bought it for my niece or nephew, they would love it. And that's what the author thought as well.
The book is full of nonsense, which kids love too much, but me, as an adult, I live finding more meaning in things.
But overall it was really nice and I recommend it for the little kids.
I know if I bought it for my niece or nephew, they would love it. And that's what the author thought as well.
The book is full of nonsense, which kids love too much, but me, as an adult, I live finding more meaning in things.
But overall it was really nice and I recommend it for the little kids.
January 3, 2026
I really enjoyed reading Alice in wonderland, the writing style and descriptions of a fantasy world is really interesting and it’s so descriptive that you’re able to transcend into the mad world immediately when picking up the book. Aside from the writing the illustrations are precious too, personally I love the illustration style but it can’t get a little uncanny if you look at it too long. Really recommend this book!
July 18, 2024
Wer hätte gedacht, dass mich ein Kinderbuch aus dem 19. Jahrhundert ernsthaft mehrfach zum Lachen bringen würde?? Wirklich ein originelles Konzept mit schönen Illustrationen. Aber hallelujah war das ein anstrengender Fiebertraum, den man an so manchen Stellen hätte kürzen können.
February 24, 2025
My daughter and I read this for her school. Our copy had extra grammar explanations, as well as interesting side notes on word choices, it really added to the reading. We enjoyed discussing which chapters were our favorite and why. It's trippy for sure, but wonderful
October 31, 2023
one of my favourites since i was little <3
November 4, 2023
so fun
June 4, 2024
why cant my dreams be like this
July 21, 2024
I'm very sorry to all who love this book but I've had some better dreams...
October 25, 2024
me after I take 17 Benadryl and start seeing the hat man
February 2, 2025
Alenku mám ráda, možná bych řekla, ze to miluju, ale knížka mě nebavila a starší anglická slovíčka byla na mě vysoký level 🤷♀️
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March 10, 2025
Listened on Audible, narrated by Scarlett Johansson.
September 15, 2025
‘Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you’re at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle————’
How I wonder what you’re at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle————’
January 3, 2026
good thing the novel was banned because I too felt high while reading it
February 1, 2026
★★★★.25
March 5, 2026
such an odd little book i can't wait to read it to my niece when shes a little older
January 31, 2025
Watched the animated adaptation as a kid and now reading it as an adult. I couldn't imagine how Lewis Carroll came up with this. Yes, it's kinda all over the place but it's for kids. Good chaos.
June 12, 2023
This book gets a 4⭐️ because it’s a 5⭐️ in ever way that counts but it didn’t give me that 5⭐️ feeling.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is thinking of reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (that’s probably why you’re reading this review).
It’s a short book so it’s very fast paced, but the story doesn’t get lost. Every word is entertaining and the letter and greeting at the end of the books is the most wonderful extra add-in in a book I’ve seen in almost any book!
Truly a magical tale. It’s a classic for a reason, what can I say?
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is thinking of reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (that’s probably why you’re reading this review).
It’s a short book so it’s very fast paced, but the story doesn’t get lost. Every word is entertaining and the letter and greeting at the end of the books is the most wonderful extra add-in in a book I’ve seen in almost any book!
Truly a magical tale. It’s a classic for a reason, what can I say?
April 28, 2024
Not my favorite book - didn't find it to be on to anything special.
February 26, 2025
Really enjoyed reading it. It's pretty weird but that's it's charm that catches the reader. It feels just like being in a little girls confusing dream
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