Alice's Adventures Underground and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland #0–1

by Lewis Carroll

The timeless classic, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature. This edition contains the original text, plus the shorter story, hand written by the author, and presented as a gift to the original Alice, for whom the story was told. This version, "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" includes Carroll's original illustrations and provides a platform for critical analysis. This publication is designed for the Common Core State Standards and contains critical thinking and Socratic Seminar questions after each chapter, as well as important literary non-fiction for comparison and analysis.

Genres: Classics, Childrens

192 pages, Paperback

First published July 4, 1865

About the author

The 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.

Reviews

[Sandra Navarro]

Never too late to be a child

[Antoinette]

This will always be one of my favourite stories.

Hapy to re-read every year.

[Eloisa]

Alice is my favourite character of all time

[Amber Greer]

It’s cute. If you like Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll then you might enjoy Heartless by Marissa Meyer. It’s a Queen of Hearts origin stories with various references (characters, food, etc) to Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, such as the Mad Hatter, raven riddle, tarts, treacles; White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat, and more.

[Julia]

Viel tiefgehender als bloß ein, wie man auf den ersten Blick meinen könnte, "verrückter Fiebertraum" oder ein anspruchsloses Kinderbuch. Besonders reizend fand ich das Englisch des späten 19. Jahrhunderts mit all seinen Wortwitzen und -spielen.

[Sheila]

Classic children’s story. A little ‘gruesome’ in parts with the Queen of Hearts. Entertaining. Read many times over the years but first time for this original version.

[charlotte ★]

lovely book, opened up my mind. you should definitely read it super fun.

[Robin]

good classic but is clear Lewis Carroll doesn't know how to write..... or perhaps his writing just doesn't do it for me, still i did enjoy it a bit

[andy]

“…where is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?”

[Miranda]

This seemed to be a combo of some of the stories from the first 2 stories.

[Mariana Correia]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a classic everybody know, about this girl who follows a talking rabbit into a hole and finds herself in Wonderland, where animals talk and where anything you drink or eat might change your looks.

I have to admit that for a children's book, this was a quite confusing reading. Not the plot itself but the way that characters talked was so bizarre that I don't think I would've understood most of it if I was in the actual conversation instead of reading it.

Alice gave me the impression that she was a confused little girl herself and I guess I would be too in that situation but the way she argues and talks with herself as if she is two different people was odd but it reflects a deeper meaning that sometimes we all go through - an identity crisis, not knowing exactly who we are and what our purpose is.

Of course the whole feeling of confusion makes sense in this book, I think that was the author's goal, since everybody is mad in Wonderland then we should feel as if we were experiencing it which was very well accomplished.

I think I should have read this before I read Heartless because now I understand a lot more references which made me very happy while reading this book.

Overall I enjoyed reading this, it's a short book so I would recommend t giving it a go and the ending was actually quite interesting and surprising.

[Silvia Llopis]

It's amazing and incredible, how Mr Carrol make a fusion between the logical mathematical and fantastic history, the explanation of the paradox is incredible and if you like the mathematical rules you must read this book.

[Eyehavenofilter]

This is my 10 th go' round with Alice and I love it every time I read it. I just love the prose and crazy words that Carroll pops in here and there, to entertain the reader. Its a cacophony of words that often make no sense, but sound wonderful all at the same time, what a treasure.

[Gavin Poe]

This book was unlike any other I have read. Lewis Carroll had quite an imagination. I loved the obscurity of the stories and the randomness of the events Alice experienced. This is probably one of my favourite books that I have read.

[Katie]

It was a peculiar sort of book, however, I guess that was the intention! This story is very much like a non-sensical dream with cute poems and puns throughout. Please check out my audiobook version of this story on my channel Katie's Bookshelf Chapters! https://youtu.be/HYJ295Ov-Jc

[Clyde D'mello]

the edition i got had the printed handwriting of lewis caroll with his illustrations :)

[Liene Millere]

Nicely bizzare..

[Michael]

Strange... Enjoyed the Disney version

[Chuck Levere]

a nice quick read. I was familiar with the story but never read the book. I'm glad I did.