Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (illustrated Edition)

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Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (illustrated Edition) (2021, Independently Published)

English language

Published Nov. 9, 2021 by Independently Published.

ISBN:
979-8-4929-7140-3
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre.

One of the best-known works of Victorian literature, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had huge influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.

106 editions

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I wasn't sure quite what to make of Alison at first, since it seemed to waver between serious and silly in the beginning, especially once it moved from first-person Alison to third-person checkups on the rest of the cast, but once it truly settled down into gentle British absurdity I was fully on board with it. It's also short enough that it doesn't wear out its welcome.

Alison and Taron make for interesting, weird, sometimes bickering and sometimes loving friends, with a great arc of coming together to BFFs and slowly drifting back apart. I kind of know both of them from my own circle, so maybe that helps me put up with them -- by far the highlight of the book. The side characters are different slices of zany, more than they are people, but help flesh out a tale that needs extra humor to keep moving, since Alison …

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