Alices's Adventures in Wonderland

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5 / 5

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Author

Lewis Carroll

Publisher

Maple Press

Genre

Classics (Childrens)

Number of Pages

120

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Blurb

“We’re all mad here.”

Written in 1865 by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis carol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is among the best-known works fiction. Original and brimming with mystery, this book went on to inspire legions of works, in both popular culture as well as classic literature.

Full of unexpected, the book chars the topsy-turvy world of Alice’s dreams. A talking White Rabbit leads her to a tea-party where time stands still and further, into a world of vanishing cats and ill-tempered Queen.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a magical tale in which nothing but only the extraordinary happens.



- Top Quotes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  -


“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

“Curiouser and curiouser.”

“I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.”

“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”

“Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”

“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.”

“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.'
What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.”

“She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”

“But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!”

“I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.”

“Begin at the beginning,’ the King said gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

Top quotes from alice's adventures in wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

He also has works published under his real name.


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