Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection)

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Nilsen, Don L. F. (1988). "The Linguistic Humor of Lewis Carroll". Thalia. 10 (1): 35–42. ISSN 0706-5604. ProQuest 1312106512. Auerbach, Nina (1973). "Alice and Wonderland: A Curious Child". Victorian Studies. 17 (1): 31–47 (39). JSTOR 3826513. Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (27 April 2015). The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland. Harvard University Press. doi: 10.4159/9780674287105. ISBN 978-0-674-28710-5. Another thing lost on me was the famous conversation with the white queen, when she says, The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day.' I took for granted that that was pure silly nonsense, but it was actually meant as a pun. It is a rule of Latin grammar (which I don't remember learning myself in Latin class) that "iam" means "now," but only in past and future. In the present, the word would be "nunc." (i and j are interchangeable in Latin.) Evidently, this quote became so famous that it became an expression for asking for too much, as in "I suppose you want jam on that."

Even without delving into the technicalities of the novel, one can enjoy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland just because of the whimsical characters and simple story. I personally love the Duchess and Pig. I'm not even entirely sure why, but I laugh whenever I read that. Carroll's use of puns is also amusing. Great read. The Alice we expect today may have had the Hollywood treatment along the way, then, but one of the most striking things about the characters of Wonderland is how very easily they morph and bend to an artist's vision, while still remaining recognisable.The 1992 musical theatre production Alice used both books as its inspiration. It also employs scenes with Carroll, a young Alice Liddell, and an adult Alice Liddell, to frame the story. Paul Schmidt wrote the play, with Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan writing the music. [120] [121] Although the original production in Hamburg, Germany, received only a small audience, Tom Waits released the songs as the album Alice in 2002.

Palmer, Robert (14 November 1993). "Tom Waits, All-Purpose Troubadour". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022 . Retrieved 5 February 2022. Jones, Jo Elwyn; Gladstone, J. Francis (1998). The Alice Companion: A Guide to Lewis Carroll's Alice Books. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-67349-2. OCLC 60150544.a b Berman, Judy (15 October 2020). "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll". Time. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021 . Retrieved 8 May 2021. It was the Sylvie & Bruno books that took me the longest to get through, because I honestly had no idea what was going on at times. The basic premise is the narrator going along on his normal life, but he falls into an "eerie" state (akin to the place between being awake and dreaming) that he encounters fairy children. But the fairy children sometimes become real children, and I don't even know. What was that all about. Witty, whimsical, and often nonsensical, the fiction of Lewis Carroll has been popular with both children and adults for over 150 years. The newest edition to the Leatherbound Classics series from Canterbury Classics, Lewis Carroll takes readers on a trip down the rabbit hole in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, where height is dynamic, animals talk, and the best solutions to drying off are a dry lecture on William the Conqueror and a Caucus Race in which everyone runs in circles and there is no clear winner. Carina Garland notes how the world is "expressed via representations of food and appetite," naming Alice's frequent desire for consumption (of both food and words), her 'Curious Appetites.' [54] Often, the idea of eating coincides to make gruesome images. After the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?", the Hatter claims that Alice might as well say, "I see what I eat…I eat what I see" and so the riddle's solution, put forward by Boe Birns, could be that "A raven eats worms; a writing desk is worm-eaten"; this idea of food encapsulates idea of life feeding on life itself, for the worm is being eaten and then becomes the eater—a horrific image of mortality. [55]