Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Jun 1992 · Sold by Aerie

About this ebook

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text.

Life gets strange when Alice sees a white rabbit wearing a coat and gloves. thens he follows him down a hole. Suddenly she grows smaller, larger, smaller, larger, smaller--and almost drowns in her own tears--

She meets a Dodo, a Lizard, a smoking Caterpillar, a Duchess...a Cat without a grin. Then a grin without a Cat. She has a mad tea party with a Hatter and a Hare.

And a madder croquet game with a King--where playing card soldiers are the hoops, flamingoes are the mallets, hedgehogs are the balls and the Queen of Hearts cries "Off with their heads!" Which lands Alice, the Mock Turtle, and a Gryphon (a what?) at a trial without rules where death is the penalty! In Wonderland, anything can happen--

And probably anything will...



At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Ratings and reviews

Un giovane scienziato, moderno Prometeo, acquisisce dopo anni di esperimenti il terribile potere di infondere la vita nella materia inerte. Creatore e Creatura ingaggiano da quel momento un duello drammatico e feroce che può concludersi solo con la reciproca distruzione negli abissi della solitudine e della colpa.

Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and has some adventures before being woken up by her sister. She encounters the Mad Hatter and the March Hair, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, the Duchess and her pig baby, the King and Queen of Hearts, the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle and many more. It's the classic children's book in its original and non-diluted form. Lewis Carroll was a mathematician and the precision shows. He is amazingly precise in his word choices and his storyline. The nonsense mixes beautifully with the undertones of dread and madness that are prevalent throughout "Wonderland". Everyone is insane, each person more so than the last. They keep getting crazier until the execution happy Queen. The book ends beautifully with Alice's older sister getting a glimpse (a glimpse is all afforded to us older folk) of Wonderland before lamenting and smiling sadly at how Alice will grow older and her place in Wonderland will be taken by some other little girl.

I love it

About the author

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, was a lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford University when he wrote Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871).