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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Audiobook
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the river bank, and of having nothing to do...when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran by her. Alice did not think it so very strange to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and then hurried on, she started to wonder! Running after the strange fellow, she was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole. Down jumped Alice after it (never considering how in the world she was to get out again) and she tumbled into a curious world inhabited by the Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Cheshire Cat, and more… With his marvelous sense of the absurd, Lewis Carroll’s whimsical, fantastical tale delighted children and adults when it was first published in 1865 and has since become a treasured classic of literature.
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"I love this book it's a classic tale . I think its better then all the other books that are in the library of Alice in wonderland because it gave poems and it's is easy to understand it. I compare it to other Alice and wonderland book that this version or story is better because it gave the poems and some of them you hear but most you don't hear and there wonderful just like the other. I recommend this to everyone because it easy and i think everyone knows this classic story of Alice."
— Taisiz (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Forget the cartoon version! Dale’s expert handling of the characters in Carroll’s classic banishes any preconceived voice characterizations from the listener’s mind. The old favorites are all here: Alice, the Queen, the Caterpillar, and so on. However, there’s more to it than just those few. Carroll’s absurd landscape is populated with equally absurd characters, many of them with only a line or two. Dale takes these bit parts and gives them true personalities that might have been ignored in other productions. Moreover, Dale’s approach to the story narration bears the kindly, slightly amused tone that one imagines Carroll himself had as he penned his much-loved tale. In a Disneyfied world, one forgets how quirky and delightfully peculiar this story really is—but now Jim Dale has brought us back to Wonderland.”
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A Point Magazine Pick of Books to Read with Children
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Listener Reviews
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" Alice brought me back to my childhood. This book is nostalgic. "
— Jordaline, 1/23/2014 -
" The story was simple. :) "
— Leensey, 1/13/2014 -
" I love this book. It is so fun and crazy and funny and ridiculous. It's fun for adults and it's fun for kids. Awesome! "
— Marlee, 1/4/2014 -
" Great fantasy that set the stage for many fantasies that followed. "
— DeAnn, 12/27/2013 -
" This was much more readable and thought-provoking than I expected. I was enthralled, which is interesting , since most of the book was really odd. I'm definitely looking forward to reading Through the Looking-Glass. "
— Andrew, 12/3/2013 -
" It was just a dream! "
— Tiffany, 10/16/2013 -
" Who doesn't know and love little Alice? "
— Michele, 8/27/2013 -
" My favorite book was Through the Looking Glass. This is not your Disney story. "
— Shannon, 8/16/2013 -
" It's a merry story full of curious and odd things, rhymes and others, just as expected. I do enjoy the original tale and I will definitely be enjoying the other book as well. "
— Camilla, 12/11/2012 -
" Like other reviewers, I wish I had read this as a child. I hope to re-read this book, possibly in the Annotated/Definitive editions with the Gardener commentary. "
— Michael, 10/10/2012 -
" Why didn't I ever read this as a child? Full of clever puns and metaphors which I have not yet unravelled, but the story-writing seemed lazy. The author would write himself into a corner and instead of finding a way out the corner would vanish. More a collection of short stories than a story itself. "
— Todd, 1/14/2012 -
" Simply an amazing classic, I've read it again and again! "
— Laure, 12/29/2011 -
" So random, colorful and silly!! I've enjoyed it so much! "
— Yelena, 11/7/2011 -
" One of the greatest literary works in my opinion. I see much of life reflected in Wonderland. "
— Valorie, 10/11/2011 -
" Brilliant and crazy... You are reading a part of it then suddenly another part comes from nothing and you sometimes get stuck in the last part you were reading.. I just love Alice... since I was a little child. "
— Micaela, 8/26/2011 -
" This story has no plot, and no structure. It seems almost like random thoughts going through the author's head in no organized manner. The only reason I kept reading was because it was crazy to watch Carrol's ideas unfold. "
— Gina, 5/17/2011 -
" Lewis Carroll is just sooooooooo imaginative! I love the whole book; it definitely is a classic. There's so many creative poems in them, and the whole plot sucks the reader into the story. I really wish that Alice's adventures would never end! "
— Sherry, 5/2/2011 -
" Not as good as Alice in Wonderland, but still delightful. The poetry in "Looking Glass" is better though. "
— Jed, 4/18/2011 -
" This book wasn't as strange as the first, but it also felt slower, to me. Not that this book was awful. I loved the poetry in it, and it seems that there is more direction in this story. <br/> <br/>Probably not a book I'll ever read again, but one worth reading at least once. "
— Casey, 4/8/2011 -
" Much better than Alice in Wonderland, which I liked, too. I had forgotten that I read large portions of this in my Logic class in college. Very fun. "
— Cory, 4/7/2011 -
" This book is just marginally better than Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I'm just not taken with Carroll's style. He had a good imagination too bad he was such a bad writer. "
— Mary, 4/4/2011 -
" Wonderfully illustrated and full of awesome colour! I loved th old style even though at times I didn't understand the book at all. I sure that the written version would add to my interest. "
— Cynthia, 4/4/2011 -
" Hated it. Got about a third of the way through it and bailed. "
— Sean, 4/2/2011 -
" We read this book on the class. "
— Yixin, 3/25/2011
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 Jim Dale
Jim Dale is the voice of all the characters in the Harry Potter audiobook series. As a narrator he has won two Grammy Awards, seven Grammy nominations, fifteen AudioFile Earphones Awards, and ten Audie Awards. As a stage and screen actor, he has won a Tony Award, four Tony nominations, four Drama Desk Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. In 2004 he was made a member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.