Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

Narrator: David Thorn, various narrators

Unabridged: 2 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/20/2014

Synopsis

Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a young girl’s adventure down a magical rabbit holeOn a dull afternoon, Alice spots a chance for adventure when a White Rabbit wearing a coat and pocket watch dashes by her, complaining about the time. After chasing the White Rabbit down into his rabbit hole, Alice encounters an entertaining series of eccentric characters including, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, Humpty-Dumpty, and the Queen of Hearts. Join Alice as she changes sizes quite indiscriminately, has a madcap tea with an outrageous menagerie and plays croquet with truly cranky royalty.

About Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), English author, mathematician, and photographer. One of eleven children of a scholarly country parson, he studied mathematics at Oxford, obtained a university post, and then was ordained as a deacon but found true success with his masterpiece, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, now known as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which originated as a story told to a young friend, Alice Liddell, during a boating trip on the Thames. Among his other works are Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, The Hunting of the Snark, and Jabberwocky.

About David Thorn

David Thorn spent his childhood in the Channel Islands off the coast of France, was schooled in England, and then immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-three. He is retired from international commerce and currently resides in California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on September 14, 2022

welcome to...ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN SEPTEMBERLAND. might be my best month/title pun since middlemarch march. we are BACK (and a week late) for Project Long Classics, in which elle and i tackle a long intimidating classic in small chunks for an entire month. however, this book is not long, and it's not i......more

Goodreads review by Manny on September 23, 2014

"Good gracious!" said Alice, "I do believe I'm inside a review!" She turned to the Hatter and the March Hare. "Well, let me see. Here is the title, and here is the date I read it. That must be today. Now I need to explain the plot and the overall point." "There is no plot," said the March Hare disagre......more

Goodreads review by Hailey on July 02, 2020

*Reread July 2017* Reread this for booktube-a-thon 2017 just because I was falling behind. Obviously I loved it (again). *Reread January 2016* Read for the school this time and I read the Puffin In Bloom edition. I loved the new illustrations!......more

Goodreads review by Federico on April 15, 2024

I'm not crazy, you're crazy! Little Alice is a bored girl laying in the prairie when she suddenly notices a curious White Rabbit complaining about getting late to his appointment. Following it she stumbles upon a rabbit hole, and when she enters it plummets in freefall until landing in a whole new......more

Goodreads review by Ruby on February 05, 2021

Curiouser and curiouser... Is there anything more wonderful than a nonsensical world of childlike fancy?......more

Quotes

“Only Lewis Carroll has shown us the world upside down as a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh.” Virginia Woolf

“Pure pleasure in prose.” Amazon.com, editorial review

“At once a biting social and political satire sufficiently complex to satisfy the most sophisticated adult and a delightfully whimsical fairy tale to capture the fancy of the imaginative child.” Masterpieces of World Literature

Awards

  • Point Magazine Pick
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