Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

And What Alice Found There

Paperback, 378 pages

English language

Published July 30, 1998 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-143976-1
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OCLC Number:
645072900
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4 stars (111 reviews)

'Contrariwise ... if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'

'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disordered tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood. Original and experimental, the Alice books give readers a window on both child and adult worlds.

This is the most comprehensively annotated edition available and includes …

74 editions

La Realidad está sobrevalorada (o al menos a mi me tiene harta)

4 stars

No voy a explicar la trama porque imagino que todos lo conocen. Me hizo pensar curiosamente en varias películas de Hitchcock, muy influenciadas por el psicoanálisis. Aunque es previo al psicoanálisis 🤷‍♀️. En mi opinión, vemos a Alicia crecer, madurar, volverse independiente y crítica con la realidad que no entiende. Se está creando su propia identidad y cambia tan rápido que a veces ya no sabe quien es.

¿Se sabe si Carroll consumía drogas? Porque tanto comer setas de efectos misteriosos en el relato, me provoca ciertas sospechas.

Existen numerosas ediciones con ilustraciones bellísimas, pero hay otras alternativas. Audio en "Cuentos y relatos" dura algo más de tres horas o leerlo en "La Nebulosa ecléctica". Pd: Me busco ya una madriguera donde colarme. O un buen libro, lo que encuentre antes.

Review of 'Alice Adventures in Wonderland' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

What a difference there is between reading paper copies of books over their digital counterparts!  I first read Alice in Wonderland on a kindle many years ago, whilst I didn't enjoy it much I could see it was a clever book,  I felt that Alice was a bit of an obnoxious brat who had no respect for anybody else.  Reading this beautiful Penguin clothbound version was a very different experience.  It was a joy to read, very clever usage of words and riddles and this time Alice came across as a girl with a smart imagination, somebody who finds joy in everything but who gets easily annoyed by the bizarre characters she finds herself hanging out with.  I especially enjoyed the Queen of Hearts this time, demanding everybody gets executed and then conveniently forgetting that fact when she needs some friends...I can see who President Trump has modelled himself on. …

Review of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass" on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

I think I'd likely give it 3.5 stars if it hadn't been for the narrator. She did a wonderful job of bringing the story to life.

I was engaged throughout most of the book but there were some scenes that seemed to be a bit heavy on details that did nothing to enhance the story or move it forward. There were also plenty of parts where I had wished more time had been spent giving us some of the feelings of the characters - some very important things that were just glossed over and not really brought up again.

But I still enjoyed the overall package a lot so that's why I went with four stars instead of three and a half.

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