Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

Narrator: Abigail Weir

Unabridged: 2 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Vectura

Published: 04/05/2025


Synopsis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. Plot:Alice, a young girl, sits bored by a riverbank and spots a White Rabbit with a pocket watch and waistcoat lamenting that he is late. Surprised, Alice follows him down a rabbit hole, which sends her into a lengthy plummet but to a safe landing. Inside a room with a table, she finds a key to a tiny door, beyond which is a garden. While pondering how to fit through the door, she discovers a bottle labelled "Drink me". Alice drinks some of the bottle's contents, and to her astonishment, she shrinks small enough to enter the door. However, she had left the key upon the table and cannot reach it. Alice then discovers and eats a cake labelled "Eat me", which causes her to grow to a tremendous size. Unhappy, Alice bursts into tears, and the passing White Rabbit flees in a panic, dropping a fan and two gloves. Alice uses the fan for herself, which causes her to shrink once more and leaves her swimming in a pool of her own tears. Within the pool, Alice meets various animals and birds, who convene on a bank and engage in a "Caucus Race" to dry themselves. Following the end of the race, Alice inadvertently frightens the animals away by discussing her cat...CREATED:Narrated by Abigail WeirAuthor: Lewis CarrollDate of original publication: 1865Genre: children's novelLanguage : EnglishVersion : unabridged, full/completeWithout subtitles

About Lewis Carroll

English writer and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was especially known for his children's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Besides being classic children's entertainment, they are also distinguished for their satire and verbal wit.

The son of a vicar, Carroll was a precocious child who showed early interest in both writing and mathematics. He studied mathematics and was appointed to a lectureship at Christ Church, Oxford. Carroll continued studying and prepared for holy orders for almost thirty years. Although he took deacon's orders in 1861, Carroll was never ordained as a priest.

A shy retiring bachelor, Carroll was happiest in the company of children, and his favorite was Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of Christ Church. On a boating trip up the river Isis, Carroll told Alice and her three older sisters a story of "Alice's Adventures Underground," weaving into it many of the places and things they'd seen on their outings together. Alice was enchanted by the story and begged him to write it down. By the following February, Carroll had written a first draft and decided to publish it as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Although he wrote a wide range of other books, including many on the subject of advanced mathematics, he is best remembered for his children's classics.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on September 14, 2022

welcome to...ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN SEPTEMBERLAND. might be my best month/title pun since middlemarch march. we are BACK (and a week late) for Project Long Classics, in which elle and i tackle a long intimidating classic in small chunks for an entire month. however, this book is not long, and it's not i......more

Goodreads review by Manny on September 23, 2014

"Good gracious!" said Alice, "I do believe I'm inside a review!" She turned to the Hatter and the March Hare. "Well, let me see. Here is the title, and here is the date I read it. That must be today. Now I need to explain the plot and the overall point." "There is no plot," said the March Hare disagre......more

Goodreads review by Hailey on July 02, 2020

*Reread July 2017* Reread this for booktube-a-thon 2017 just because I was falling behind. Obviously I loved it (again). *Reread January 2016* Read for the school this time and I read the Puffin In Bloom edition. I loved the new illustrations!......more

Goodreads review by Federico on April 15, 2024

I'm not crazy, you're crazy! Little Alice is a bored girl laying in the prairie when she suddenly notices a curious White Rabbit complaining about getting late to his appointment. Following it she stumbles upon a rabbit hole, and when she enters it plummets in freefall until landing in a whole new......more

Goodreads review by Ruby on February 05, 2021

Curiouser and curiouser... Is there anything more wonderful than a nonsensical world of childlike fancy?......more