The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the ‘regular course’ in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. In fact, at every turn, Alice’s new companions scoff at her traditional education. But they turn out to be ‘curiouser and curiouser,’ seemingly without moral or sense.įor more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non moralistic, non educational virtues of this classic. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll’s putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing ‘The dream child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new.’ There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. com Review /Source Content Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. By falling down a rabbit hole, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters.
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