Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was the third of eleven children of an Anglican clergyman. His real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and he excelled in the study of mathematics. At Oxford, where he taught, he befriended Alice Liddell, the dean’s daughter, who inspired him to write Alice in Wonderland (1865), illustrated by John Tenniel, and the sequel Alice in Wonderland (1871). Since the first edition, the Alice books have been translated into over 170 languages and have inspired film, stage and television adaptations. In addition to these texts, the author also wrote numerous letters, political texts, mathematical treatises, texts of absurd literature.
Alice was a little girl sitting on the bank of a river when suddenly she saw a White Rabbit running with a watch in his vest pocket. Curious, she followed him through a cave where she descend into a fantastic world. Arriving in the middle of a room with many doors, Alice drinks from a magic bottle and eats from a cake that, made her as small as an insect and as big as to hit her head on the ceiling. Seeing the rabbit in a hurry again, Alice run after him and reached a caterpillar that invited her to eat from a mushroom so she would return to its usual height. Going further, Alice arrived at the house of a duchess who was cradling a baby that looked like a piglet, and next to the duchess was a Cheshire cat with its mouth up to its ears. At the cat’s direction, Alice set off again and came upon a Mad Hatter who was having tea with the March Hare and a Badger. Noticing that everyone was behaving strangely, Alice continued on her way until she reached a tree where she saw a secret door that led to a beautiful garden. Three gardeners, in the form of playing cards, argued with each other while painting the white roses in the garden with red paint. They told Alice that their queen is very bad and that if she sees white roses she will cut off their heads. Then the queen appeared, along with the White Rabbit, who wanted to play a game called cricket without a stick, but with flamingo birds. In this strange game, Alice feels very confused and insecure and suddenly all the cards scare her. Then she hears her sister’s voice telling her that she slept, and Alice realizes that it was all just a dream.
Retelling of the original story
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