Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll

I adore this story. I have read this book a few times and each time I find something new to love. Lewis Carroll’s writing is so whimsical that it truly transports you. 10/10 would recommend to ALL.

Even after 5 years, no other book has replaced this Masterpiece as my “best book”.
The plot is fantabulous, and the characters are attractive. The chain of events is sensational and highly genuine.

I just couldn’t get enough of this book. I loved this book so well I can’t give it enough stars. This story and its characters was so pure and simple I could imagine myself with Alice. It was humorous…sometimes I was laughing so hard I was crying. I enjoyed this book more than words can express. This book, everything about it, was beautiful, simply beautiful. The setting was so vivid and expressionfilled. The funniest parts were when Alice met the Queen of Hearts. The were playing crochet with living animals. Then there was the time Alice was talking with the Gryphon and the Turtle. The Turtle was obviously extremely erroneous concerning education. He was describing his school to Alice, and he said “history” was “mystery” and a lot of other twisted up tales. Then there was the Rabbit, March Hare, Hatter, and the Dormouse, who alone made up a curious group. The Dormouse apparently had problems with a sleeping disorder, as he could fall asleep standing up. Then there was the Duchess, who had a baby who resembled a pig, and the silly cook who threw everything within reach at the Duchess. Another odd character (all of Lewis Carroll’s characters are odd) was the Chesire Cat, who could disappear just like that. There were many others, including a courtroom full of poor fools who toppled over when Alice made a sudden move, which I did not mention. The extra bossy Queen seemed to have a problem beheading anyone for the slightest offense, while the weak King pardoned them all behind her back. As it turned out, this whole story was all a strange dream which Alice had while she was resting outside with her big sister. Anyway, this was a wonderful book, and you should read it for yourself…one of the best books I’ve ever read, and yes, up till now. This book had a really great impression on me, and I found myself saddened to see myself coming to the end of it. I highly recommend this book to readers of all ages.

Multiplicity of editions can be frustrating if you want to spend correctly just once. The AmazonClassics edition is a very good edition, almost perfect, it has X-Ray, the original illustrations in a good size, modern typography and a very polished formatting; except one part: there is a beautiful poem/tale, “The Mouse’s Tale”, in which a mishearing makes Alice to blend tail with tale and the story appears typographically in a quite beautiful shape of a tail, sinuously getting narrower til being as thick as an individual letter. Unfortunately in the AmazonClassics Edition the shape is rather like a sinuous river, it losses its meaning. I checked other kindle edition I have, “Alice in Wonderland: The Complete Collection” edition by Maplewood Books, the illustrations are a bit less clear (at least that was I felt), the formatting, although good, it’s not as exemplar as the AmazonClassics Edition but to my tranquility “The Mouse’s Tale” is formatted faithful to the original, so I will stick to that complete edition and I won’t get the second book, “Through the Looking-Glass,” in the AmazonClassics Edition, for fear that it will not express the intentions of the author.

Peculiar book. Although built of meaningful blocks of events, as a group they are surreal; if there exists a meaning, is meant for only an initiated in the reasons of the story. For what I read it could be for the amusement of a little girl friend of Lewis Carroll. I love it very much. Weird and all, inscrutable and unfathomable as it is to me at the same time it is exciting and mind blowing. Alice falls into another world, one that changes like a dream but whereas we as actors of our dreams change along them. Instead Alice lives them quite consciously, as one of those old memories of strange events or creatures you saw, in which you are not that sure if it actually happened or, being that fantastic, it was a reverie feed by being in an unfamiliar place.

Beautiful book love that it’s the original story.

This review is specifically for the Salvador Dali illustrated edition reprint. Originally published in a limited edition over 50 years ago, all of Dali’s multitude of fans can now have this lovely edition in their own collections of the Master’s works.