Alice in Wonderland

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Alice in Wonderland
by LEWIS CARROLL
Told on a Summer Day

What a lucky thing it was for the world of grown-ups and those in the process of growing up that George MacDonald was able to persuade his friend Lewis Carroll to publish Alice\ Lewis Carroll, whose everyday Oxford name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, finally wrote out Alice but did not think it worth publishing, for Alice had been conceived originally as an idle accompaniment to a water-picnic. It was a hot July day and Mr Dodgson, the Oxford don, took three charming young sisters 'up the river to Godstow; we had tea on the bank there, and did not reach Christ Church till half-past eight'. When the party landed in the meadows they sat under a hayrick out of the sun, and all three children begged for a story. So the white rabbit was conjured up with the famous watch, and on such a day it was perfectly natural for Alice (the second of the three sisters) to follow such an extraordinary rabbit down a very large rabbit hole,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Alice in Wonderland
by LEWIS CARROLL
Told on a Summer Day

What a lucky thing it was for the world of grown-ups and those in the process of growing up that George MacDonald was able to persuade his friend Lewis Carroll to publish Alice\ Lewis Carroll, whose everyday Oxford name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, finally wrote out Alice but did not think it worth publishing, for Alice had been conceived originally as an idle accompaniment to a water-picnic. It was a hot July day and Mr Dodgson, the Oxford don, took three charming young sisters 'up the river to Godstow; we had tea on the bank there, and did not reach Christ Church till half-past eight'. When the party landed in the meadows they sat under a hayrick out of the sun, and all three children begged for a story. So the white rabbit was conjured up with the famous watch, and on such a day it was perfectly natural for Alice (the second of the three sisters) to follow such an extraordinary rabbit down a very large rabbit hole, to discover the jar of orange marmalade and the bottle marked 'drink me'. Although the whimsical narrator said on this occasion 'and that's all till next time', the magic having been started had to go on, and the story was continued on other days.
Accompanying the original draft were some illustrations which were drawn by 'Lewis Carroll' himself, and these are included in this Everyman edition.
Alice's adventures take place in a topsyturvy kingdom governed by laws of unassailable logic (Mr Dodgson was an expert mathematician). We can enter it at almost any age, and enjoy a holiday in a fantasy world where the dream-like events seem like the real world standing on its head.
Cover design by Robin Jacques Vissza