About this title: As he escorted the three young daughters of a colleague on a trip up the river Isis, Lewis Carroll invented ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, the story of a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Full of such wonderfully eccentric characters as the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad ...
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Description: Good. 0140383514 Good condition soft cover book, clean pages, some edge/corner rubs, some creasing to spine, this book is Good! Shop & Save With US. read more
Edition: reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam Classics, New York, NY
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553213454ISBN:0553213458
Description: Gently read paperback in good condition. Previous owner's name has been blacked out inside front cover. NO other writing, highlighting, or dog-eared pages. Pages are age toned. Cover shows light wear with NO spine creasing. This edition includes the original illustrations by John Tenniel and an introduction by Morton N. Cohen. This edition also contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition. Not one word has been omitted, as stated on the copyright page. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Yearling, New York
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780440407430ISBN:0440407435
Description: Tenniel, John. Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very nice clean flat paperback with only very light overall wear. pages clean and unmarked. nice copy! read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780140383515ISBN:0140383514
Description: Tenniel, John, Sir. Fine. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. Fine read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Barnes and Noble, New York, NY, USA
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781593080150ISBN:1593080158
Description: LIKE NEW. Appears as new and unread but has a mild shelving bend to the top back corner. No tears, no previous owner names, and no creases. 110809gs. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780451527745ISBN:0451527747
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
"Para ser del canon he de reconocer que no ha estado mal. Pero, para ser del canon!!!
Empecé el libro si ninguna convicción/intención de acabarlo. Sin embargo, su fácil lectura me fue adentrando en el argumento. Para mi es un buen ejercicio de surrealismo, teñido de cuento infantil. Destacable la imaginación del autor, y algunas (en mi criterio pocas, con el melón abierto) frases o ideas dada la historia y la libertad que le daba. Probablemente se adelantó en su tiempo a otros artistas, músicos o pintores.
Del libro Alicia a través del espejo, ejercicio igualmente surrealista, me parece interesante el planteamiento como una partida de ajedrez, a pesar de que me deja el gusto agridulce de que parece que no se se saca todas las posibilidades a la historia. Son cuentos sin moraleja, y quizá en esta característica este el quid de la cuestión, al parecer ejercicios incompletos. No pretendo que cada historia tenga una moraleja, pero el carecer totalmente de indicaciones puede hacer que el escrito no llene al lector, como ha sido mi caso. No todo mi comentario es negativo, recuerdo la frase de la reina, "yo antes de desayunar ya he creído en 5 cosas increíbles", o la de "que le corten la cabeza". El resto me parecen situaciones forzadas cuyo mérito principal es conseguir que situaciones absurdas compongan una historia con un argumento seguible.
Punto y a aparte me parecen las notas del traductor, en la edición que he leído de Cátedra. Yo diría que son de lo mejorcito del libro, en clave irónica. Me recuerda a mi mismo cuando hacía comentarios de texto en 3º de BUP, estrujando cada frase e intentando sacar de ella interpretaciones que ni el mismo autor se hubiese imaginado al escribirlas. Comentarios sintácticos, semánticos, políticos, filosóficos... y todo porque el autor era un profesor de matemáticas... Sublime me parece su comentario (un párrafo entero) a "...Pero ¿cómo es posible hablar con alguien que siempre te dice lo mismo?": Interesante formulación de lo que hoy se conoce como uno de los principios de la lógica y la teoría de la comunicación. el principio de la bivalencia... Vamos, que antes de Carroll no se sabía de esto, y con una frase tonta de una niña hablándole a un gato (¿?) formulamos uno de los grandes principios de la Humanidad... Pero bueno, escribo esto desde la ignorancia, cual insensible visitador de un museo de arte moderno, con cuadros rojos, negros o amarillos. Así que probablemente no tendré razón, y nos hallemos ante una de las obras maestras de la literatura, no solo infantil, sino para eruditos."
""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is a humorous and notable book to read over the summer. I thought the "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was like a game of rugby or soccer where the ball is always in play and never stops, Alice just faces trial after trial. It was interesting to see how Lewis Carroll would interpret a small child going through all the problems she had and how to interpret a small child's logic and reasoning. The characters in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" are so creative, it's amazing how someone could make a complete opposite reality to the world and how ridiculous but amusing it can be for the reader. My favorite characters were the March Hare and the Mad Hatter because it reminds me about me and my best friend Chris. The Mad Hatter and the March Hare are very nutty characters considering how they act or coordinate with each other. The few illustrations it the book are amazing especially from the original. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is a good book for any age you can't put it down. It's also amazing how Lewis Carroll was also able to construct a picture for the scene he must have had a very good idea of what he was about to write about. If you want to read a book that's exciting and funny read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and for an added bonus read the "Through the Looking Glass" edition and have a good read."
"This book wasn't at all what I thought it was. All these years, I thought it would be this trippy, completely balmy story, that people read while they were stoned. Turns out, it's just an average book, with a little bit of nonsense thrown in. I really enjoyed the Jabberwocky poem. The rest of the book was just an average children's story. In fact, it was rather a push to get through, which is unusual to me. No matter - it's still a rather referenced piece of literature.
The fact, though, that Wikipedia had this to say about it, made me laugh out loud, literally: "The poem is sometimes used in primary schools to teach students about the use of portmanteau and nonsense words in poetry, as well as use of nouns and verbs." Haha, not in primary schools in the States!"
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