Author: Lewis Carroll
Book: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1/2 of the series)
Published: 1865
Genre: Fantasy, Classic Literature
Pages: 157 (Wordworth Edition)
My Rating: 3 stars
Age To Read: 9+
About The Author: Lewis Carroll was a pen name used by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson an English author born twenty-seventh January eight-teen thirty-two and died fourteenth January eighty-teen ninety-eight, not only did Lewis write books but he was also a poet, mathematician, and photographer. He was best known for his books Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1865) and the its sequel Alice Through The Looking Glass (1971).
About The Book: Young Alice is sitting by a bank with her sister when she spots a white rabbit with a pocket watch and waistcoat in a hurry, Alice curious follows him down a rabbit hole that is unnaturally long. Alice finds herself drinking from bottles making her shrink and eating cake that makes her grow. Frustrated Alice begins to cry when suddenly the white rabbit appears once more dropping a pair of gloves and a fan, using the fan Alice begins to cool herself down which once more shrinks her, leaving her drowning in her own tears. Soon Alice finds herself meeting curious characters such as a smoking, talking caterpillar, a grinning Cheshire cat and the Queen of Hearts who short-tempered orders for Alice’s beheading when challenged by the young girl. Soon Alice wakes from her dream and finishes herself with a cup of tea.
My Review: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland was one of the more-odd books I’ve read. I found the writing style to be unique just as I do with most classic books, nevertheless it is one of the best out there (in my opinion). I take this book in as one big poem, the weird plots with no explanation truly make it such. Like Alice eating cake with the result of making her grow is just sitting there with no context or reasoning other than it moving the story forward by helping Alice fit through the door to the garden. The cake is there and needed for the story line, but we receive nothing else about it. It’s one of the many reasons I enjoyed the book, Lewis explains nothing. Not why there’s a caterpillar smoking or an army of guards being made of a stack of cards or not even why Alice had he dream in the first place, not if there was some mental illness behind the dream which is what most modern authors would of included in the book. It’s an easy and enjoyable read you don’t have to think too much about or remember certain things for it to make sense. The book is short only about one hundred and fifty-seven paged depending on which publisher you purchased with making it the perfect book for an afternoon, getting out of a reading slump, and any age after nine (recommended).
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”.
- Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
If you don’t know where your going, any road will get you there.
- Lewis Carroll
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop
- Lewis Carroll
More By The Author:
{1} Alice’s Adventure Underground (1865) (Manuscript)
{2} Alice Through The Looking Glass (1871) (Sequel)
{3} The Wasp In The Wig (1977) (Suppressed Chapter)
{4} The Nursery Alice (1889) (Illustration)
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