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Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)

Author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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About the Author

Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other show more scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:

**Please do not combine "Alicia in Terra Mirabili" and "Aliciae Per Speculum Transitus" with the modern-language versions of these books. They fall under the dead language exception to the usual combining of different translations. Thanks!
**Please exercise extreme caution in merging pop-up books with the main work: in most cases, they should not be combined.
**Please do not combine The Annotated Alice with any of the "normal" Alice editions, nor the Annotated Snark with the Hunting of the Snark.
**Please also do not combine The Annotated Alice with The Annotated Alice : The Definitive Edition as the latter contains both The Annotated Alice, More Annotated Alice, and additional material. Thanks!

Series

Works by Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) 27,209 copies
The Annotated Alice (1960) 2,441 copies
The Hunting of the Snark (1876) — Author — 1,302 copies
Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1863) 1,024 copies
Jabberwocky (1977) 877 copies
The Best of Lewis Carroll (2001) 559 copies
Sylvie and Bruno (1889) 355 copies
Jabberwocky and Other Poems (1973) 290 copies
The Game of Logic (1966) 233 copies
The Nursery Alice (1889) 214 copies
Alice in Pop-up Wonderland (2003) 149 copies
A Tangled Tale (1885) 113 copies
The Wasp in a Wig (1977) 102 copies
Feeding the Mind (1973) 73 copies
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893) 64 copies
Matemática demente (1982) 64 copies
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 1 (2017) — Contributor — 58 copies
Alice in Wonderland [1985 TV mini-series] (1985) — Original book — 49 copies
Songs from Alice (1978) 46 copies
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883) 40 copies
Owls and Pussycats (1988) 39 copies
Alice in Wonderland (2009) 36 copies
Nonsense Verse (1995) 32 copies
Letters to Little Girls (1976) — Author — 31 copies
Complete & Utter Nonsense (1777) 26 copies
Classic Lewis Carroll (2010) 24 copies
The Snark Puzzle Book (1973) — Author of the poems — 24 copies
Lela Dowling's Alice (2004) 24 copies
Alice in Wonderland: Play (1980) 24 copies
The Lewis Carroll Book (1939) 23 copies
Alice in Wonderland: Longman Classics, Stage 1 (1987) — Author — 23 copies
The Pig-tale (1975) 22 copies
The Rectory magazine (1975) 19 copies
ALICIA ED COMPLETA (2015) 16 copies
Selected poems (2002) 15 copies
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Panorama Pops (2015) — Author — 15 copies
The mad gardener's song (1967) 14 copies
Niñas (1974) 13 copies
Utter Nonsense (2004) 12 copies
Poems of Lewis Carroll (1973) 11 copies
Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat (1998) 11 copies
Doublets (2017) 9 copies
Alicia. Edición completa (2015) 8 copies
Alice im Wunderland (2005) 7 copies
Alice i Underlandet (1979) 6 copies
Humpty Dumpty (1997) 6 copies
Alice in Wonderland (A Marvel classic edition) (1978) — Original Story — 6 copies
Alice 5 copies
Verses from Alice (1973) 5 copies
Logica fantastica (1999) 4 copies
Wonderland Tales (2014) 4 copies
Lettre d'anniversaire (1982) 4 copies
Caixa Alice + Alice (2015) 4 copies
A pequena Alice (2000) 4 copies
Lewis Carroll 4 copies
Alice imedemaal (2018) 4 copies
Alice in Wonderland (1999) 3 copies
Alice Pleasance Liddell (2016) 3 copies
Alice (2015) 3 copies
Contro la vivisezione (1999) 3 copies
Letters: v. 1 (1979) 3 copies
Alice in Wonderland (1987) 2 copies
Alice in Wonderland (2019) 2 copies
Alice (2013) 2 copies
Alícia per a infants (2015) 2 copies
Köpan Avi (2021) 2 copies
Alice, Dorothy & Wendy (2020) 2 copies
Alice für Kinder (2014) 2 copies
Mischmasch (2008) 2 copies
I garbugli del reverendo (2002) 2 copies
The Blank Cheque: A Fable (1874) 2 copies
Wilhelm Von Schmitz (1854) 2 copies
Exeunt Alice (2009) 2 copies
A Photographer's Day Out (1860) 2 copies
The Legend Of Scotland (1856) 2 copies
Alice (2012) 2 copies
Alice Harikalar Ulkesinde (2015) 2 copies
La Canne du Destin (2013) 1 copy
Cara Alice 1 copy
Alice Csodaorszg̀ban (2006) 1 copy
Poetry All Kids Love (2010) 1 copy
The Rectory Magazine (1850) 1 copy
A New Puzzle 1 copy
Facts 1 copy
Poemas (2015) 1 copy
Tout Alice 1 copy
Peake's Alice (2001) 1 copy
Miscellaneous Pieces (2008) 1 copy
La caverne du magicien (2009) 1 copy
La caza del carualo (2016) 1 copy
A Liddell family album (1973) 1 copy
Alice i Underlandet (2015) 1 copy
Rhyme? 1 copy
Isa visite Oxford (1988) 1 copy
Explor 6 Looking Glass (2015) 1 copy
Lettres illustrées (2000) 1 copy
Russian Alices (2016) 1 copy
Alice (2010) 1 copy

Associated Works

Eric Carle's Animals Animals (1989) — Contributor — 2,215 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 926 copies
Alice in Wonderland [1951 film] (1951) — Original Book — 869 copies
Favorite Poems of Childhood (1992) — Contributor — 824 copies
The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Contributor — 626 copies
The Book of Fantasy (1940) — Contributor — 609 copies
The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1, books 1-2 (1956) — Editor, some editions — 608 copies
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contributor — 549 copies
A Treasury of the World's Best Loved Poems (1961) — Contributor — 524 copies
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998) — Contributor, some editions — 505 copies
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contributor, some editions — 446 copies
The Treasure Chest (1932) — Contributor — 260 copies
The Literary Cat (1977) — Contributor — 241 copies
Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories (2010) — Contributor — 220 copies
The Golden Treasury of Children's Literature Set (1961) — Contributor — 210 copies
Ladybird Classics: Alice in Wonderland (1986) — Author — 188 copies
The Magic of Lewis Carroll (1973) 187 copies
Love Letters (1996) — Contributor — 182 copies
Alice Through the Looking Glass [2016 film] (2016) — Author — 182 copies
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019) — Contributor — 168 copies
Best Remembered Poems (1992) — Contributor — 159 copies
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contributor — 141 copies
Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves (1987) — Contributor — 130 copies
The World of Mathematics, Volume 4 (1956) — Contributor — 123 copies
Once Upon a Time: The Fairy Tale World of Arthur Rackham (1972) — Contributor — 121 copies
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contributor — 116 copies
Jabberwocky [1977 film] (1977) — Original poem — 97 copies
The Norton Book of Friendship (1991) — Contributor — 96 copies
Storytelling and Other Poems (1949) — Contributor — 91 copies
Classics Illustrated: Through the Looking Glass (1871) — Original author — 89 copies
Beastly Verse (2014) — Contributor — 89 copies
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-Up Book (1683) — Author — 82 copies
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contributor — 72 copies
Over the Rainbow Tales of Fantasy and Imagination (1983) — Contributor — 62 copies
Alice in Wonderland (adapted ∙ Penguin Readers Level 2) (2000) — Original author — 62 copies
The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997) — Contributor — 61 copies
Alice in Wonderland [1999 TV movie] (1999) — Original book — 55 copies
The Complete Alice in Wonderland [IDW Comic] (2010) — Original Author — 55 copies
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999) — Contributor — 54 copies
The Junior Classics Volume 06: Old-Fashioned Tales (1912) — Contributor — 47 copies
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1972 film] (1971) — Original story — 45 copies
A Golden Land (1958) — Contributor — 42 copies
Alice [1988 film] (1988) — Original book — 37 copies
A Book of Nonsense (1956) — Contributor — 34 copies
Alice in Wonderland (Running Press Miniature Editions) (1993) — Contributor — 33 copies
Alice in Wonderland [1933 film] (1933) — Original book — 30 copies
A Book of Nonsense (1927) — Contributor — 30 copies
Alice in Wonderland [1966 TV movie] (1966) — Original book — 28 copies
Alice In Comicland (2014) — Contributor — 28 copies
100 Story Poems (1951) — Contributor — 21 copies
A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose (1993) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories (2004) — Contributor — 20 copies
Dragons, Dragons, Dragons (1972) — Contributor — 19 copies
Is Mathematics Inevitable? (2008) — Contributor — 14 copies
Almost Alice: Music Inspired by the Motion Picture (2010) — Composer — 13 copies
Alice in Wonderland (Brimax Classics) (1997) — Author, some editions — 13 copies
The Favourite Wonder Book (1938) — Contributor — 13 copies
Law in Action: An Anthology of the Law in Literature (1947) — Contributor — 13 copies
The World of Law, Volume I : The Law in Literature (1960) — Contributor — 12 copies
Jabberwocky (2006) — Contributor — 11 copies
All Day Long: An Anthology of Poetry for Children (1954) — Contributor — 10 copies
Alice's Adventures Underground (adapted) (1995) — Story — 9 copies
The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (2019) — Associated Name — 6 copies
Lewis Caroll (1971) — Contributor — 6 copies
Cats: Fifteen Complete Stories and Poems (1998) — Contributor — 5 copies
The Best Nonsense Verses (1901) — Contributor, some editions — 4 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, April 1975 (1975) — Contributor — 4 copies
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2017) — Contributor — 4 copies
Betty in Blunderland [1934 short film] (1934) — Original story — 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 5, January 1978 (1978) — Contributor — 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 8, April 1976 (1976) — Contributor — 3 copies
Alice at the Palace [1982 film] (2001) — Original book — 3 copies
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland [1983 TV episode] (2001) — Original book — 2 copies
Short Stories: The Timeless Collection (Unabridged) (2007) — Contributor — 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 12, August 1978 (1978) — Contributor — 1 copy
Short Stories: The Nostalgia Collection (2008) — Contributor — 1 copy
Alice Through The Looking Glass [1973 TV movie] (2013) — Original book — 1 copy
Alice in Wonderland (1997) — Original Story — 1 copy
Garland of Rachel — Contributor — 1 copy
Alice and Her Friends from Wonderland (1986) — Contributor — 1 copy
Alice aux pays des merveilles (2021) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name
Carroll, Lewis
Legal name
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
Other names
An Unendowed Researcher
C.L.D.
Oedipus
Birthdate
1832-01-27
Date of death
1898-01-14
Burial location
Mount Cemetery, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Gender
male
Nationality
UK
Country (for map)
England, UK
Birthplace
Daresbury, Cheshire, England, UK
Place of death
Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Cause of death
Pneumonia
Places of residence
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Whitburn Sands, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Education
Rugby School, Rugby, England, UK
Christ Church, Oxford
Occupations
writer
mathematician
photographer
logician
cleric
artist
Relationships
Fox, Alice Wilson (cousin)
Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson (nephew)
Ruskin, John (friend)
Kitchin, G. W. (friend)
Organizations
Church of England
Christ Church College, Oxford
Short biography
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem "The Hunting of the Snark", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy.
Disambiguation notice
**Please do not combine "Alicia in Terra Mirabili" and "Aliciae Per Speculum Transitus" with the modern-language versions of these books. They fall under the dead language exception to the usual combining of different translations. Thanks!
**Please exercise extreme caution in merging pop-up books with the main work: in most cases, they should not be combined.
**Please do not combine The Annotated Alice with any of the "normal" Alice editions, nor the Annotated Snark with the Hunting of the Snark.
**Please also do not combine The Annotated Alice with The Annotated Alice : The Definitive Edition as the latter contains both The Annotated Alice, More Annotated Alice, and additional material. Thanks!

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Reviews

I feel that I have already read both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and simply forgotten. The introduction to my Bantam Classic copy provides the background of how the books came to be written from stories told to the actual Alice and her sisters, greatly enhancing the reading experience because you can picture it in the structure of both books. It also contains the original illustrations.

Where Alice comes across primarily as a whimsical tale told in reaction to the surrounding scenery and the reactions of the girls as Carroll entertained them on a Sunday afternoon, Through the Looking Glass feels embedded with life lessons as Alice makes her way across an imaginary landscape, overcoming various tests and tribulations (much like growing up). The physical representations of the fording of streams within the narrative feels particularly like goals accomplished and rewards given.

Both books succeed because of the obvious interplay between two worlds, with Alice the child unintendedly displaying her limited understanding of the rules and manners of the adult world through the illogical, ironical characters she meets. The tyrannical Red Queen. The ever-late White Rabbit. Tweedledee and Tweedledum and their long tale "The Walrus and the Carpenter," who graciously take all the young oysters out for a walk and a talk; only in the poem's final sentence do we learn that the gallant heroes have actually "eaten every one" (an admonition, perhaps, not to trust seemingly helpful adults?). My favorite chapter, "The Lion and the Unicorn," relates Alice's interactions with the King as he incessantly takes Alice's words literally. When she tells him she sees nobody on the road, he is envious of her vision to see an actual Nobody who is out of the King's range. When his messenger tells him nobody is faster than he, the King contradicts him, saying that obviously Nobody is not swifter, else he would already have arrived with the message.

While the jacket blurb implies deeper meanings hidden within Alice—"a satire on language [and] political allegory"—I think the entire story is simply an educated man's amusement told to a friend's daughters, influenced and embellished by his adult awareness of the gap between his world and theirs.

* - I have posted the same review for each book, seeing how, for me at least, it is difficult to separate the two or read only one.
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I feel that I have already read both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and simply forgotten. The introduction to my Bantam Classic copy provides the background of how the books came to be written from stories told to the actual Alice and her sisters, greatly enhancing the reading experience because you can picture it in the structure of both books. It also contains the original illustrations.

Where Alice comes across primarily as a whimsical tale told in reaction to the surrounding scenery and the reactions of the girls as Carroll entertained them on a Sunday afternoon, Through the Looking Glass feels embedded with life lessons as Alice makes her way across an imaginary landscape, overcoming various tests and tribulations (much like growing up). The physical representations of the fording of streams within the narrative feels particularly like goals accomplished and rewards given.

Both books succeed because of the obvious interplay between two worlds, with Alice the child unintendedly displaying her limited understanding of the rules and manners of the adult world through the illogical, ironical characters she meets. The tyrannical Red Queen. The ever-late White Rabbit. Tweedledee and Tweedledum and their long tale "The Walrus and the Carpenter," who graciously take all the young oysters out for a walk and a talk; only in the poem's final sentence do we learn that the gallant heroes have actually "eaten every one" (an admonition, perhaps, not to trust seemingly helpful adults?). My favorite chapter, "The Lion and the Unicorn," relates Alice's interactions with the King as he incessantly takes Alice's words literally. When she tells him she sees nobody on the road, he is envious of her vision to see an actual Nobody who is out of the King's range. When his messenger tells him nobody is faster than he, the King contradicts him, saying that obviously Nobody is not swifter, else he would already have arrived with the message.

While the jacket blurb implies deeper meanings hidden within Alice—"a satire on language [and] political allegory"—I think the entire story is simply an educated man's amusement told to a friend's daughters, influenced and embellished by his adult awareness of the gap between his world and theirs.

* - I have posted the same review for each book, seeing how, for me at least, it is difficult to separate the two or read only one.
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Alice im Wunderland ♦ Lewis Carroll | Rezension

Alice im Wunderland war das erste Buch, welches ich im Jahr 2021 gelesen habe und damit hab ich mein erstes Feld beim #Frühjahrsputzbingo abstempeln können.
Gabriela (Buchperlenblog) hat mich durch ihre Hintergrundgeschichte [AUF SPURENSUCHE] DIE WAHRE ALICE wieder auf das Buch aufmerksam gemacht. Alice im Wunderland gehört seit vielen Jahren zu den Klassikern unter den Kinderbüchern. Und da ich ja so einen kleinen Zwerg habe, der irgendwann die Welt von Alice betreten wird/kann, hab ich mir auch direkt eine Ausgabe der Anaconda Kinderbuchklassiker besorgt. Doch konnte mich das Buch überzeugen?



Meinung

Dass Alice im Wunderland mittlerweile zu den Klassikern allgemein und unter den Kinderbüchern gehört, ist keine Frage. An sich hätte ich das Buch auch nicht lesen müssen, da die Geschichte einfach allgemein bekannt ist und viele Male verfilmt wurde. Schon durch die Filme war mir klar, dass ich hier auf eine sehr verrückte Geschichte stoßen werde, doch wie verrückt es für mich dann wirklich rüberkam, hätte ich nicht erwartet.


Handlung

Wir wissen, dass Alice mit ihrer Schwester am Ufer eines Baches vor sich hin döst und dabei ein weißes Kaninchen in einer Herrenwest beobachtet. Neugierig folgt sie ihm und damit beginnt ihre wilde Reise durch das Wunderland. Alice trifft auf die Figuren, die uns allen irgendwie bekannt sind. Wir wissen, dass sie einen Schluck von einem Zaubertrank nimmt und kurz darauf auf die Größe einer Maus zusammenschrumpft, um kurz danach von einem Kuchen zu essen und die Größe eines Hauses einzunehmen. Anfangs war es mir nicht klar, doch Alice mimte vor all den Figuren eine sehr mustergültige Naive, während sie versuchte mit ihrer kindlichen Logik dem Wahnsinn zu entkommen.

Da ich wusste, dass es sich bei all den verrückten und teils sinnfreien Abenteuern um einen Traum handelt, waren die seltsamen Situationen auch annehmbar. Ansonsten hätte ich mich ehrlich gefragt, unter welchen bewusstseinsverändernden Mitteln der Autor stand oder ob er doch einfach nur eine sehr blühende Fantasy hatte.

Die Erstausgabe von Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland wurde erstmals 1865 (bei Macmillan & Co.) veröffentlicht und leider hat es sich auch genauso gelesen. Da es sich bei meiner Ausgabe um eine Kinderbuchklassiker – Ausgabe handelt, hatte ich gehofft, dass es doch eher an unseren heutigen Sprachgebrauch angelehnt ist. Denn ich würde die Geschichte meinem Jungen irgendwann sehr gerne vorlesen. Wie alles in der Welt entwickelt sich auch Sprache weiter und für die heranwachsenden und kommenden Generationen wird es schwerer und schwerer die Sprache von vor 1900 zu verstehen.

Schreibstil: ⭐⭐⭐/5
Charaktere: ⭐⭐/5
Plot: ⭐⭐⭐/5
Gesamt: 2,6/5

Fazit

⭐⭐⭐/5

Im Endeffekt tut die Sprache der Geschichte keinen Abbruch, denn Alice im Wunderland ist und bleibt ein Klassiker, auch für mich. Selbst wenn das Buch für mich nur 3 von 5 Sternen erhält, denn ich hab einfach ein wenig mehr von Alice als Charakter erwartet, ist es doch ein gutes Buch und ich habe jetzt auch so richtig Lust auf die letzte Verfilmung aus dem Jahre 2010.

Ein besonderes Schmancker’l waren die Originalillustrationen von John Tenniel, die das Buch ein wenig aufgepeppt haben.

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Alice hinter den Spiegeln ♦ Lewis Carroll | Rezension

Von Alice hinter den Spiegeln habe ich mir jetzt nicht mehr so viel erwartet, wie von dem Vorgänger Alice im Wunderland. Daher wurde ich auch nicht im mindesten enttäuscht, aber auch nicht positiv überrascht. Doch mein Augenrollen beim Lesen konnte ich einfach nicht lassen.



Meinung

Wie Alice im Wunderland gehört auch diese Geschichte um Alices Träume zu den Kinderbuchklassikern. Doch Alice hinter den Spiegeln konnte mich ebenso wenig packen, obwohl die Anaconda Ausgabe in einer Neuübersetzung erschienen ist, hatte ich null Freude an dem angepriesenen Dialogwitz, ich musste leider eher immer wieder die Augen rollen. Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass ich diese Art von Humor nicht mehr nachvollziehen kann oder aber eher, weil ich einen anderen Humor vorziehe, der auch nicht unbedingt kindgerecht ist.

Die Figuren waren für mich auch dieses Mal wieder zu blass und viel zu wirr. Auch die dazwischen liegenden Gedichte/Lieder waren für mich einfach nur langweilig und zu lang. Es mag am ursprünglichen Schreibstil des Autors liegen, dass ich mich einfach nicht mit den Geschichten anfreunden kann. Aber eins ist sicher, die Verfilmungen von Tim Burton gefallen mir sehr gut.

Handlung

Alice sitzt mit ihren drei Katzen im Haus und beginnt zu fantasieren, wie die Welt auf der anderen Seite des Spiegels wohl aussehen mag, ob dort alles spiegelverkehrt ist. In diesem Buch wird einem schon früher klar, weil es eben auch erwähnt wird, dass Alice zu träumen beginnt.

Im Garten der sprechenden Blumen trifft Alice auf die schwarze König und damit beginnt ihre Reise über ein riesiges Schachbrett. Die schwarze König sagt, dass Alice selbst Königin werden würde, sollte sie das Ende des Schachbrettes erreichen. Während sie von einem Feld zum nächsten wandert, die immer durch einen kleinen Bach voneinander getrennt sind, trifft Alice viele verschiedene Figuren. Alle sind für sich einzigartig und sie alle sind ihr, in ihren ganz speziellen Weisen behilflich zum nächsten Feld auf diesem riesigen Schachbrett zu gelangen.

Natürlich schafft es Alice und am Ende, wie in jedem Traum wird es am bizarrsten, denn die Feier zu ihrer Krönung ist ein reinstes Chaos.

Fazit

⭐⭐⭐

Die Sternebewertung habe ich auf 3 Sterne gesetzt, aber mehr war für mich einfach nicht drin. Am Ende der Tage kann ich jedenfalls sagen, dass ich das Buch gelesen habe, doch es konnte mich vom versprochenen Dialogwitz nicht überzeugen. Auch die gesamte wirre Traumgeschichte hat mich einfach nicht abholen können.

Ein besonderes Schmancker’l waren die Originalillustrationen von John Tenniel, die das Buch ein wenig aufgepeppt haben.

Diese Rezension gibt es auch auf theartofreading.de und wurde dort zuerst veröffentlicht.
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