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    Alice no País das Maravilhas
    Alice no País das Maravilhas
    Alice no País das Maravilhas
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    Alice no País das Maravilhas

    By Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel

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    "Alice no País das Maravilhas" é o mais estranho e fascinante livro para crianças já escrito. Pois, quando a personagem principal segue um coelho branco para dentro de sua toca, ela acaba despencando por ali para um mundo subterrâneo que, mais do que maravilhoso, é extremamente bizarro. Conseguirá a pequena Alice, sozinha, entender os enigmas que lhe são propostos, o que está fazendo ali e encontrar o caminho de volta?
    LanguagePortuguês
    PublisherL&PM Editores
    Release dateNov 1, 1998
    ISBN9788525400307
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    Lewis Carroll

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. He is especially remembered for bringing to life the beloved and long-revered tale of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

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    • 5/5
      Many of the reviews on this site do not relate to the Salvador Dali illustrated book, but rather to another illustrator. Very Confusing.I love Alice's imaginative adventures and her increasing confidence as she accepts her changing size and bizarre circumstances.Yet, just as I did not enjoy the treatment of animals in a cruel way - the flamingoes, hedgehogs, guinea pigs - when I first read the book as a child and, although I was happy with the final resolution of the Queen and her deck of cards, the constant "Off with their heads!" was and is still annoying.Dali's paintings remain dramatic and an eternal evocative mystery. So good that this book has come to all of us!
    • 4/5
      I plan to read Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy and thought it might be interesting to reread the book, this time in French. >My first observation was that the translator did a good job and most of the book was translated well - at least to the limits of my memory. Then I did notice some shortcomings, for instance the wordplay in the mouse poem relating the mouse's tail to the tale being told just didn't work in French. However, the translator did include good footnotes. Here, he explained differences in the French and English version. He also added some historical notes that I found added value to the story. This included some symbology that I was completely unaware of. Some of the jokes and puns were, if my memory serves, and perhaps were replaced with new or similar ones taking advantage of the language differences.Overall, it is a quick read, delightful and imaginative and well worth some time spent.
    • 4/5
      Delightfully fun, whimsically amusing and what an imagination! Between the outlandish characters, the silly puns and the play with logic, it is easy to see how this book is such a great story for both children and adults. Obviously, a reader needs to love - or at least appreciate - the nonsensical fun to fully enjoy this story, especially given the caricatures and the mayhem that is Wonderland. I can see where some adult readers may revisit this one for nostalgic childhood reasons, but I think I probably appreciate the story more as a adult reader, than I would have reading it as a young girl. Overall, very happy to have finally read this children's classic.
    • 4/5
      Very nicely read. Enjoyable audiobook.
    • 3/5
      While the story is creative, it is also a lot of nonsense. Albeit is supposed to be a dream, it is rather bizarre. I find it odd that the story has such renown. I mildly recommend this book mainly for the value of being familiar with the story because it is so well known.
    • 4/5
      hard to believe i've never read this but wonderful story
    • 5/5
      I once read Alice in Wonderland when I was younger and I thought it was okay. Not amazing, but okay. I reread it now a few years later in this edition and I think it was the illustrations that did it for me. I really enjoyed the story. The pictures brought so much to the story. I would recommend this edition. 5 out of 5 stars.
    • 2/5
      An Exercise in Insanity

      This book was insane. The adventures she had and the creatures she met...It all sounded like what a bad acid trip would be like.

      I'm honestly not sure I enjoyed it. This may require a re-read in the future.
    • 3/5
      Alice in Wonderland vertelt het verhaal van de kleine Alice die in slaap sukkelt bij een uitstapje en in haar droom een wit konijn achterna rent door een pijp. Ze komt in een volledig andere wereld terecht en wordt geconfronteerd met de meest vreemde schepsels: eigenaardige dieren en levende kaarten, enzovoort. Allemaal zijn ze druk met zichzelf bezig en niet echt er op uit Alice beter te leren kennen. Die vraagt zichzelf trouwens geregeld af wie ze eigenlijk is. De gekste gebeurtenissen doen zich voor en de gekste teksten worden de lezer voorgeschoteld, tot Alice uiteindelijk weer ontwaakt.Achter de spiegel borduurt voort op dat thema, zelfs in een nog hogere versnelling. Alice geraakt in een spiegel en komt buiten het zichtsveld weer in een vreemde wereld terecht. Vooral de schaakfiguren beheersen hier de zaak. Er zijn andermaal tal van zonderlinge figuren. De dialogen hebben nog meer dubbele bodems dan tevoren. Maar het geheel geeft een zo mogelijk nog verwarder en daardoor ondoorgrondelijker indruk dan het vorige verhaal. Op de duur wordt het - zeker bij een lectuur voor kinderen - gewoon ontoegankelijk. Het einde is vrij abrupt.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic book! Wonderfully illustrated!
    • 3/5
      It was okayy..
    • 4/5
      Dette er den originale håndskrevne version af historien "Alice's Adventures under Ground", urmanuskriptet. Den blev oversat til dansk som "Maries Hændelser i Vidunderlandet" allerede i 1875, men den var dårligt oversat og vakte ikke større begejstring. Der er et efterskrift, der fortæller bogens historie og fx at "How doth the little busy bee, improve each shining hour..." er et digt fra 1715 af Isaac Watt.Historien kender vi jo: Alice følger efter en kanin, falder ned i et hul, havner i en sal med døre, drikker af en flaske og bliver mindre, men kan nu ikke længere nå nøglen. Hun spiser af en kage, der gør hende for stor. Hun har grædt en stor vandpyt og falder selv i den sammen med en mus, en and, en dum dodo, en dværgpapegøje og en ørneunge og en masse andre dyr. Den hvide kanin dukker op igen og hun følger efter den til dens hus. Indenfor drikker hun igen en flaske og bliver kæmpestor. Peter Kanin truer med at brænde huset af, da firbenet Ole ikke kan få hende ud, men hun når at blive lille igen. Hun stikker af og møder snart efter den blå kålorm. Hun læser en underlig version af "Du er gammel, far Vilhelm" op for kålormen. Derfra går det via Filurkatten over til gartnerne, der maler hvide roser røde. Den Røde Dronning har let ved at dømme folk til døden, men Alice redder gartnerne ved at stikke dem i lommen. Dronningen spiller kroket med Alice, men snyder groft. Næsten alle bliver dømt til døden, men faktisk er det indrettet så ingen bliver henrettet. En forloren skildpadde og en grif bliver afbrudt i deres historie af en retssag, hvor Dronningen vil have først dommen og så beviserne.Netop da vågner Alice.Fremragende historie oprindeligt fortalt til Alice Liddell. Historien er både bundet til Carrolls egen tid og alligevel stadig holdbar.
    • 4/5
      A classic. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the first installment of this classic story. It’s one of those movies that has been depicted in film for years, and will be interesting for children to read. This curious tale of Alice encourages children to glimpse a new world full of fun and exciting things. Things most would never even think of. It begins when Alice sees a White Rabbit running across the bank wearing a vest and holding a pocket watch. She decides to go on an adventure and follow this rabbit down his hole where she falls for what seems like ages. After growing and shrinking several times, she gets through a small door which leads to a whole different world. This world includes talking animals and cards. On this adventure through Wonderland, Alice comes across many strange circumstances and in trying to be polite gets caught in some people's company that is less than desirable (like the caterpillar, the Duchess, the Pig, the Mock Turtle, and the Red Queen). Alice enjoys exploring the world she entered through the White Rabbit’s hole that is so different from her own. But Alice finds these creature lack manners and sometimes run confusing circles with their conversation. This book is great for introducing children to the fun of poetry (which there is plenty of) and how manners were extremely important to children in 1865. This is a great and interesting read for children both young and old. Details: This novel was written to interest children in grades 3-6 and is on a 5.9 reading level.
    • 5/5
      This follows largely the same plotline as the unpublished Adventures Underground I have just read, with the welcome additions of the Cheshire cat and the Mad Hatter's tea party. Wonderful stuff, though if pushed I would say that this seems to drag a bit in one or two places (to the extent that such a minor criticism is relevant to literary nonsense) and that Underground is probably a tauter piece of writing. John Tenniel's depiction of Alice in his illustrations here has become iconic, though I thought Carroll's own original illustrations are a little more haunting. 4.5/5
    • 5/5
      Timeless, relatable story for many young readers. Fosters and an amazing sense of imagination. Student learn that whenever they face an obstacle they can overcome it. One theme in this book is life being a puzzle. This story is similar to how a child might think. I think it would be a very good book to use in the classroom.
    • 2/5
      Ugh. Alice is ridiculously annoying. I did not enjoy the plot of this, the poetry, the constant repetition of ideas (the shrinking and growing). None of the characters were in any way interesting. I don't understand the universal love of this book.
    • 3/5
      The edition I read was actually an online version with the same illustrations and everything. It is a rather fun book, and is certainly far deeper than the "children's book" that it is depicted to be on its surface. I wouldn't say I loved it, but it was certainly worth finally reading the book behind a story I have heard so much about. The language twists alone made it well worth it, as there is definitely a lot of creativity there.
    • 5/5
      As a child, I read the stories of Alice in Wonderland (and, later, Through the Looking Glass) with a sense of wonder and amusement. Alice shows that it is possible to engage with a world which makes no sense on her own terms; she is not overwrought at her lack of understanding of the improbable and bizarre happenings around her. She brings reason to bear in narrow, specific cases (such as when arguing with the Red Queen), but is not paralysed by the irrationality of general occurrence. In this, she is like all children - dealing with reality not by knowing, but by exploring and engaging. This sense of innocent inquiry creates great sympathy in the younger reader.As an adult (older, grizzled and perhaps wiser), re-reading these stories once again provokes wonder and amusement - but this time, the wonder is at the ingenuity of the author and the amusement is if anything greater. This shift in reaction is because, as an adult, I know a few things: I know that it is impossible (in general life!) for soldiers to be playing cards, for Cheshire cats to disappear from the tail and for children to shrink and grow at the slightest provocation. Knowing this increases my admiration for Lewis Carroll, as he has constructed a world where the impossible occurs, but not without its own logic.While there is nonsense, there is structure - and the impossibilities have the common feature that they are all things which might occur to an imaginative young child while daydreaming. Thus they are not simply random (which would be nowhere near so satisfying to read), they are linked and interlocked to form a thoroughly pleasing structure. The underlying structure of the poem Jabberwocky has been analysed at length in [Hoftstadter], which elicits further wonder at the interlinked meanings and senses in the work. The amusement, of course, comes from understanding more of the jokes!
    • 4/5
      Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the Classic nonsense tale of an English girl falling down a rabbit hole, there to encounter the strange world of absurdly anthropomorphized animals and playing cards, enigmatic messages and, well, sizing issues :-D

      A Classic is usually a novel that has become so ingrained in the collective memory or culture, that one might not be sure whether one has read it or not. The reputation of the book itself precedes the actual experience of reading it and the characters are often the prototypes of later iterations and any number of adaptations. If you've never experienced Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, or read it once before, or even if you've read it multiple times, it bears (another) reading. As familiar as many are with the tale, to actually read or hear the original, un-Disneyfied tale is a pleasure as the nuances of the language surface and fade in ephemeral logic and gently wry humor. The subtlety, whimsy and detail of Wonderland, its inhabitants and their language lends itself to repeated discoveries.

      Michael York as the narrator of this audiobook edition brings a nice range of character voices to the story, never sounded absurd himself as he renders the tale of Alice with obvious affection and a master storyteller's grace. His smooth, somewhat effete British voice evokes the romance of an afternoon spent on the Thames and brings the curiouser and curiouser world of Carroll's creation to life.

      Redacted from the original blog review at dog eared copy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; 07/12/2011
    • 3/5
      It was fun and bizarre and I'm happy I read it.
    • 4/5
      “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” The Chesire cat to AliceWhat delightful wonderous nonsense. To spend 2 hours and 44 minutes listening to Scarlett Johansson’s joyful narration of "Alice in Wonderland" was like a breeze of fresh air for my overworked brain.“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin… but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!” Is it subversive nonsense? Filled with hidden meanings? Cleverly organised and meticulously metered out nonsense? Maybe…I don’t know - overblown psychoanalytical interpretations kill the wonder of it all - and it’s original intention: The enchanted nonsense of a child’s imagination. As the forever tea party - where Alice ponders:“The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.”And it’s certainly a “curious dream” I will revisit again and again. Scarlett, we have a date next year for another 2 hours and 44 minutes.
    • 5/5
      Its been many years since I last read this and it was better than I remember it being and more nonsensical. I think my memory of the book had been warped by the movies (just a bit crap especially the most recent Johnny Depp one!).
    • 3/5
      Listened to this on CD. Alice's adventures after she falls down a rabbit hole chasing the white rabbit. She runs into several other characters, the cheshire cat, the queen of hearts, the tortise, and has quite an imaginative adventure in wonderland.
    • 4/5
      This was a lot of fun! Gleefully absurd, thick with wordplay and puns (some of which I had to go back and re-read in an English accent to "get"), and a quick, joyful little read. I highly recommend this to anyone, whether or not you've seen any of the film adaptations - I've seen most, and I was still missing out until I read this.
    • 4/5
      First line:~ 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 pictiures or conversation, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?~I found this book intriguing and boring at the same time. I think that I have been contaminated by the movies and television shows so the book seemed too 'plain'. Not enough colour. It is one of the few times that I can say that I enjoyed the movie more than the book; usually it is the other way around.I did find that the change of topics from chapter to chapter was inconsistent but when you see that the whole thing is a dream, well, that is how dreams work isn't it? Not much connection between one thing and another, jumping from scene to scene. If I was going to read this to my children I would choose some kind of a Disney version because I think that the graphics, in this case, add a valuable dimension to the reading experience.I am glad that I read it but it will never be a re-read, unless I have a grand-child!
    • 5/5
      I read this book but in the 1865 version. It was a great and very enjoyable. It was originally written for the entertainment of children but its wittiness and written points of view attracted adult readers as well. The nonsense in the story allows adult readers to think as a child does as well as thinking outside the box. The story is filled with different characters and personalities, which have been thought to represent the different personalities of Lewis Carroll.
    • 3/5
      At first I thought that this was a story that I would love to read to my children. However, after reading this I am not so sure. There were times when I laughed at the child-like humor and then there were times when I was just like what? Some of the logic and the tales told in this story were hard to follow, so I am pretty sure it would be hard for children as well. I do understand the moral behind the story though. If you ever need to take a step back from stressful everyday life then this may be the story for you.
    • 5/5
      Recently reread and remaining one of my best beloved books of all time.
    • 5/5
      This book is such a classic, how can you not love it! I think this book should be read to all children at some point in their lives, not just watching the movie.
    • 4/5


      Alice in Wonderland might have been the world most reinterpreted work in every form of living history. While I love the interpretative works like ABC's Once Upon A Time, SyFy's Alice, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and such, unfortunately, it's one of my most hated Disney movie of all time despite it is one of a setting of Square-Enix's Kingdom Heart which I used to like playing it.

      Alice's Adventure in Wonderland started when the curious Alice who followed a rattled rabbit in waistcoat into a whole that leads to a place where she called Wonderland. She had the most curious response to her environment and tried logically to make sense of her surroundings. She met with countless of creatures of all shapes and sizes. She did however shapeshifted to various shapes and sizes from eating and drinking things in the nonsense world.

      Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was a mathematician and to me, it was evident that he uses applied mathematics and probabilities in his plots despite the confusion in story progressions and the deux es machina nature of the book. He added puzzles and contradicting poems and often offering questions and dialogues to an other ignorant audience. In what probably an attempt to elevate himself in a way that no one could comprehend his inner joke that I need The Annotated Alice to make sense what it is. Well, thats what I think....

      I would say the most content that you get from the book was from the characters in it. There are also a bulk of poetry and riddles that occupied the book that made the premise sounded like the "Inception" within a story. The bulk of what AiW meaningful were the multitudes of intriguing characters and unpredictable qualities of all of them which are interesting even when you see them being caricatured in every sort of ways. That is why the reinterpretation of the characters are very appealing to me.

      From the first chapter, I was surprised that I do feel similarities with myself and Alice in the book. She's curious, she actually contradicted herself like I do all the time. She sees the world as dull and she's attracted to intelligent things that when she's unable to rationalize the things that were happening, she came out with interesting solutions. For the story of a little girl, she's quite intelligent for her age. She is rational and intuitive and fearless. I guess it explained why the Disney interpretation of Alice gave me an unsubtle intense dislike because the animation seemed to fit in the perception of woman and superficial Disney princess in the 50s and not the book. I have taken a liking with the 2010's version but Alice is very similar to the ones in the animation that it came off as bland and dull despite interesting casts.

      Had the book came without its attached illustrative etching from Sir John Tenniel, one would have some problem in the settings of the book. I do find Wonderland were up to the interpretation of people who want to view it. And in my mind eyes, unlike the characters residing in it, Wonderland is much less of a vibrant and bleak country like the differences with the romance of the south and the industrialize north of England like the setting of Victorian era's "North and South" novel. In a sense the realism Carroll tried to emulate by refusing to humanize the characters and giving them an anthropomorphic qualities and comical portrayals in the illustrations. However if you think of applied mathematical in a way, what seems illogical to a rational mind is in fact dependent on the perceptions that it would have been logical in irrational beings.

      For all it tries to be, Alice in Wonderland may be short but its wealth of questions lingered in millions of readers that made the book in some ways; immortal.

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    Alice no País das Maravilhas - Lewis Carroll

    caparosto

    Juntos na tarde dourada

    Suavemente a deslizar,

    Nossos remos, sem destreza,

    Dois bracinhos a manejar,

    Pequeninas mãos que fingem

    Nossa direção guiar.

    As Três cruéis! Nesta hora,

    Sob este sonho de tempo,

    Implorarem por histórias

    Com o mínimo de alento!

    Mas que pode a pobre voz

    Contra três línguas sedentas?

    Proclama Prima o edito

    Comece!, diz sobranceira.

    Mais gentil, Secunda espera:

    Que não contenha asneira!

    Tertia a cada minuto

    Detém o conto, faceira.

    E de repente o silêncio,

    Com os passos da ilusão

    Perseguem a criança-sonho

    Pelas terras da invenção,

    Falando a seres bizarros...

    Uma verdade, outra não.

    E assim que a história secava

    As fontes da fantasia,

    Em vão tentava o cansado

    Desfazer o que tecia,

    Mais, só depois... É depois!

    Gritavam com alegria.

    Forjou-se assim, lentamente,

    O País das Maravilhas,

    Está pronto, para a casa

    Já foi virada a quilha

    Pela alegre equipagem

    Sob um sol que já não brilha.

    Com mão gentil, entre os sonhos,

    Alice! Guarda este conto

    Na memória da infância,

    Sob seu místico manto,

    Grinalda que um peregrino

    Colheu em terras de encanto.

    Prefácio à edição de 1886

    Como Alice está prestes a ser encenada, e como os versos de É a voz da Lagosta foram considerados demasiado desconexos para fins dramáticos, quatro versos foram acrescentados à primeira estrofe e seis à segunda, enquanto a Ostra foi transformada numa Pantera.

    Natal de 1886

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    Prefácio à edição de 1897

    Tenho recebido tantas perguntas sobre qual seria uma possível resposta para a Charada do Chapeleiro (vide capítulo VII) que acho melhor deixar aqui registrado o que me parece ser uma resposta bastante apropriada. Porque o corvo, como a escrivaninha, pode produzir algumas notas, embora sejam muito chatas, e nunca pode ser virado de trás para frente![1] Mas isso é apenas uma ideia que me ocorreu mais tarde. A Charada, como foi originalmente inventada, não tinha resposta.

    Para esta edição de 1897, novos eletrótipos foram tirados dos blocos xilográficos (que, nunca tendo sido usados para impressão, estão em tão boas condições como quando foram primeiro talhados em 1865), e todo o livro tornou a ser composto com novos tipos. Se as qualidades artísticas desta reedição ficarem aquém, sob qualquer aspecto, das apresentadas pela edição original, não será por falta de esforços da parte do autor, editor ou impressor.

    Aproveito a oportunidade para anunciar que o exemplar da Alice em versos, até o momento vendido por quatro xelins, pode ser agora adquirido, com as mesmas características, como um livro de gravura de um xelim – embora eu tenha certeza de que é, sob todos os aspectos (exceto o do próprio texto, sobre o qual não me cabe opinar) muito superior a esses livros. Quatro xelins era um preço perfeitamente razoável, levando em conta a despesa inicial muito alta que tive de fazer. Ainda assim, como o público tem praticamente dito Não daremos mais que um xelim por um livro de gravuras, por mais artístico que seja, aceito contabilizar a minha despesa como prejuízo, pois a deixar que os pequenos, para quem a obra foi escrita, fiquem sem o livro, prefiro vendê-lo por um preço que é, para mim, quase o mesmo que distribuí-lo de graça.

    Natal de 1896

    Capítulo I

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    ESCENDO PELA TOCA DO

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    OELHO

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    Alice estava começando a se cansar de ficar sentada ao lado da irmã à beira do lago, sem ter nada para fazer: uma ou duas vezes ela tinha espiado no livro que a irmã estava lendo, mas o livro não tinha desenhos, nem diálogos. E de que serve um livro, pensou Alice, sem desenhos ou diálogos?

    Assim ela ficou pensando consigo mesma (da melhor maneira possível, pois o dia quente a fazia se sentir muito sonolenta e estúpida) se o prazer de fazer uma corrente de margaridas valeria o esforço de se levantar e colher as margaridas, quando de repente um Coelho Branco de olhos cor-de-rosa passou correndo perto dela.

    Não havia nada de muito extraordinário nisso. Nem Alice achou assim tão estranho escutar o Coelho dizer para si mesmo: Oh, meu Deus! Oh, meu Deus! Vou chegar tarde! (Quando ela refletiu mais tarde a respeito, ocorreu-lhe que deveria ter se admirado disso, mas no momento tudo lhe pareceu bem natural.) Mas quando o Coelho tirou um relógio do bolso do colete, deu uma olhada no mostrador e seguiu adiante apressado, Alice levantou-se num átimo, pois lhe passou pela cabeça que nunca tinha visto um coelho com bolso no colete, nem com um relógio para tirar do bolso, e, ardendo de curiosidade, correu pelo campo atrás dele, chegando bem a tempo de vê-lo sumir numa grande toca embaixo da cerca viva.

    No momento seguinte, lá entrou Alice atrás do coelho, sem sequer pensar como é que iria sair da toca de novo.

    A toca continuava reta como um túnel por algum tempo e depois afundava de repente, tão de repente que Alice não teve como pensar em parar antes de começar a cair no que parecia ser um poço muito profundo.

    Ou o poço era muito fundo, ou ela estava caindo muito devagar, pois teve bastante tempo para olhar ao redor enquanto caía e para se perguntar o que iria acontecer a seguir. Primeiro, tentou olhar para baixo e descobrir onde ia chegar, mas estava escuro demais para ver alguma coisa. Depois olhou para as paredes do poço e notou que estavam cobertas de guarda louças e prateleiras de livros. Aqui e ali viu mapas e desenhos pendurados em pregos. Pegou um pote de uma das prateleiras ao passar. Trazia uma etiqueta com as palavras GELEIA DE LARANJA, mas, para sua grande decepção, estava vazio. Ela não queria deixar cair o pote, pois tinha medo de matar alguém lá embaixo, por isso deu um jeito de colocá-lo num dos guarda-louças, enquanto continuava a cair.

    Bem!, pensou Alice consigo mesma. Depois de uma queda dessas, não vou achar nada demais em levar um tombo escada abaixo! Como todos lá em casa vão me achar corajosa! Ora, eu não abriria a boca nem que caísse do telhado! (O que era provavelmente verdade.)

    Para baixo, para baixo, para baixo. A queda nunca ia chegar ao fim? Gostaria de saber quantos quilômetros já caí a essa altura, disse em voz alta. Devo estar chegando perto do centro da Terra. Deixe-me ver: isso seria seis mil e quinhentos quilômetros para baixo, acho... (pois, sabem, Alice aprendera muitas dessas coisas nas aulas da escola, e embora não fosse uma oportunidade muito boa de exibir os seus conhecimentos, pois não havia ninguém para escutar, ainda era uma boa prática repetir a lição) ...sim, é mais ou menos essa distância... mas aí eu me pergunto em que Latitude ou Longitude estou agora. (Alice não tinha a menor ideia do que era Latitude, nem Longitude, mas achava que eram palavras muito imponentes para dizer.)

    Depois começou de novo. "E se eu atravessar a Terra inteira! Como não vou parecer engraçada saindo entre as pessoas que caminham com as cabeças para baixo! As antipatias, acho..." (desta vez ela ficou bem alegre que não havia ninguém escutando, pois a palavra não parecia nem um pouco certa) ...mas vou ter de lhes perguntar qual é o nome do país. Por favor, minha senhora, esta é a Nova Zelândia? Ou a Austrália? (e ela tentou fazer uma mesura enquanto falava – imaginem, fazer uma mesura enquanto se está caindo pelo ar! Vocês acham que conseguiriam fazer?) E como vai me achar uma menina ignorante por fazer essas perguntas! Não, não vai dar para perguntar. Eu talvez veja o nome escrito em algum lugar.

    Para baixo, para baixo, para baixo. Não havia nada mais para fazer, por isso Alice logo começou a falar

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