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    Alice's Adventures under Ground
    Alice's Adventures under Ground
    Alice's Adventures under Ground
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    Alice's Adventures under Ground

    By Lewis Carroll

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    Alice's Adventures Under Ground' is the original manuscript version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Alice in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheranboco
    Release dateAug 25, 2016
    ISBN9783736408517
    Alice's Adventures under Ground
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    Lewis Carroll

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), was an English writer, mathematician, logician, deacon and photographer. He is most famous for his timeless classics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. His work falls within the genre of ‘literary nonsense’, and he is renowned for his use of word play and imagination. Carroll’s work has been enjoyed by many generations across the globe.

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    • 5/5
      This was the original version of the published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, presented to the little girl Alice Liddell to whom he had originally narrated his story on a boat trip. It is half the length of the published story and lacks the Cheshire cat and the Mad Hatter's tea party. Carroll's own illustrations are simpler yet in a way more haunting than the more famous Tenniel illustrations. Still very entertaining. 5/5
    • 4/5
      After we went to see Tim Burton's quite delightful version of Alice in Wonderland , I was drawn back to the original. This is a facsimile edition of the handwritten copy with 37 of his own illustrations that Lewis Carroll gave to Alice Liddell for Christmas in 1864. This is the gentlest version of Alice's adventures -- thoroughly suitable for young children. And it is interesting to see it written in Carroll's handwriting with his rather rough pictures.
    • 5/5
      I love holding this book. Because it is a facsimile of the original manuscript, it almost feels as though you are holding the original. The illustrations set into the text are odd and fascinating, and the language of the text is brilliant.
    • 5/5
      What a wonderful little book for any Alice fan. I received this book for my birthday in 2004 and I can't help but grab it every once in a while when I want to get back to the roots of Alice. Must have book for any serious Alice fan.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely adore the fact that this book is done in Carroll's handwriting - it completely sets the scene of some of the paragraphs, and his drawings are fantastic.
    • 4/5
      I am so glad that I found this before reading the expanded story.
    • 2/5
      This is what is typically known as an ur-text, namely a rough draft that has been extensively rewritten to produce the final work (though when I think of an ur-text, I usually think of the ancient world). Needless to say it is nowhere near as good as the original text, though for some reason people wanted Lewis Carol (or whatever his name is, and I can't be bothered looking it up at the moment) to publish the original story that he told Alice Liddel that day they were rowing down that river in Oxford (I know the river because I have been to Oxford, but I cannot remember the name of it – I think it is the Thames, but I could be completely and utterly wrong – and probably am).I am not a big fan of ur-texts, unless of course a friend hands me one to read because they want to publish it (and so far I have only one friend who has actually published something, though he got me to critique the first book, but not the rest). The only ur-texts that I am actually interested in are the ancient ones, such as the ones that you find in ancient Babylon. For instance there are lots of different versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh, though there is one that is generally accepted as the authentic version. Then there are also theories of the ur-text to the Bible, but the thing is that we don't actually have them so any possible texts that arose is mere speculation.However, when it comes to books like the Bible, the ur-text might actually be substantially bigger than the final proof that we have, and the reason for that is that the editors (Moses when it comes to the first five books) has only brought out the important points that they want to get across. However, I am now thinking that the original texts are not necessarily ur-texts but rather source documents.As for modern literature, ur-texts can be useful for those who are extensively studying the particular text because it helps us understand how the polished version has come together. However, it can also be useful to aspiring writers in that they can see the rough draft that came before the final product. However some writers don't actually use ur-texts, such as Isaac Asimov, who didn't actually like to plan or rewrite any of his stories. In fact, the one story that he said he put a lot of effort into developing turned out to be really bad. In the end, as I say, each to their own.
    • 5/5
      An early book that was afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Much of the familiar story of Alice in Wonderland. There are slight differences.

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    Alice's Adventures under Ground - Lewis Carroll

    GREETINGS.

    ALICE'S ADVENTURES

    UNDER GROUND

    BEING A FACSIMILE OF THE

    ORIGINAL MS. BOOK

    AFTERWARDS DEVELOPED INTO

    "ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND"

    BY

    LEWIS CARROLL

    WITH THIRTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS

    BY THE AUTHOR

    Chapter I

    Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and where is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations? So she was considering in her own mind, (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid,) whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain was worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

    There was nothing very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the rabbit say to itself dear, dear! I shall be too late! (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket or a watch to take out of it, and, full of curiosity, she hurried across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In a moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

    The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly, that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself, before she found herself falling down what seemed a deep well. Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her, and to wonder what would happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything: then, she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves: here and there were maps and pictures hung on pegs. She took a jar down off one of the shelves as she passed: it was labelled Orange Marmalade, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar, for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

    Well! thought Alice to herself, after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house! (which was most likely true.)

    Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time? she said aloud, I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think— (for you see Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity of showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to hear her, still it was good practice to say it over,) yes that's the right distance, but then what Longitude or Latitude-line shall I be in? (Alice had no idea what Longitude was, or Latitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)

    Presently she began again: I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll be to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! But I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?—and she tried to curtsey as she spoke (fancy curtseying as you're falling through the air! do you think you could manage it?) "and what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to ask: perhaps I shall

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