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I am a big Alice in Wonderland fan and this book is just beautiful. I love the cover illustration and the book is very nice. It is exactly what I was looking for.

The book is delightful, but I'm not talking about the story of Lewis Carrol itself. I'm talking, literally about the book -- its size, texture of pages, color of endpapers, texture of dustcover, that it has a built-in silky bookmark and so on. (This is one book in which it is the right thing to do to judge a book by its cover.) I'm also referring to the extra material, though. First are the illustrations which are really cool. Then there is plenty of commentary on the illustrations. There is also commentary on the Author, Illustrator, Foreward writer and even commentary on the typography of the book. Finally, the Foreward is amazing. I don't know if I agree with all that the Foreward writer says, but that Foreward sure helps to build your vocabulary. I've had six philosophy courses and I still had to look up dozens of words in the Foreward. Really advanced, arcane or even never-heard-of words -- why?, beats me. You would need a Ph.D. in literature to know all the words without a dictionary. So whether you're an adult wanting to increase your vocabulary or you want to buy a nice little book that is a delight itself in its physical being as a book, this is the Alice to buy.

I had been searching for my first copy of Alice in Wonderland for the longest time and finally found this one. This is rather a richly designed edition to the Carroll classic. It comes with a necklace too! Alice in Wonderland is one of the few books that have rarely charmed both children and adult readers. The talents of John Tenniel are amazing. The way he draws those detailed pictures is fabulous. AMAZING! There's an illustrator if you had one. The story is so well written. I read this book to my little brothers who love little Alice. They think it is just so joyful. They like the characters, the White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts. They think they are so funny. I like little Alice and the Rabbit myself, if you'd ask me. This is such an excellent book. Grab it while ya still can!

Peggy Webber directed and wrote this outstanding adaptation of Lewis Carroll's "ALICE IN WONDERLAND" for

California Artists Radio Theatre. The beautiful, gentle piano score is composed by David Pinto.

The production is perfectly cast. Roddy McDowall is ideal as Lewis Carroll (The Narrator) and The March Hare. Samantha Eggar is excellent as Alice. Henry Kaplin is wonderfully neurotic as the White Rabbit. Kathleen Freeman and Jeanette Nolan are featured as the Duchess and The Queen Of Hearts, respectively.

Three characters from the sequel "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS". Tweedledee and Tweeledum (great character actors William Windom and Parley Baer) and The White Knight (John Astin) are also included here. In this version, Alice meets them just after the celebrated Mad Tea Party. After these encounters, the story continues in the Queen's garden, with the croquet game and crazy trial, as in Carroll's book. Like Alice's adventures, the production passes by all too quickly in a breezy 90 minutes. But we can always listen to it over again. The production comes in both two cassettes and two CD formats. This is an absolutely essential purchase for any fans of Lewis Carroll and "ALICE." From Oasis Audio. www.oasisaudio.com

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Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland is a book about a young girl named Alice who knows that if she had a world of her own she would know it wouldn't make sense. Then all of that changes when a white rabbit comes in the story. Full of curiosity, Alice then follows the White Rabbit into a rabbit hole, and now at that point, figures out that she has entered into another world, Wonderland. Therefore Alice must get her way home and along the way meeting unforgettable characters from this book. Like the caterpillar, March Hare and Mad Hatter, Duchess, the mischievous Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts. This book is a great book to read for all kinds of ages, since this book is full of imagination, great characters and more.

This is the edition I grew up with. Firmly implanted in my mind some 40 years later, and relevant to so much of what I have encountered in the world -- from Humpty Dumpty's made-up words through the White Knight's "the name is called . . ." Just read it to my two girls, a wonderful experience for all of us. Make it live on!

So glad to have this book for my library - not sure if I ever read it as a child, but I'm looking forward to reading it this summer at the beach!

If you are going to buy a copy of Alice in Wonderland make sureyou get this one Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. Her illustrationsmake what was a good book great. Buy it!

The editor's discription of this product is all wrong. This is a play based of from Caroll's works.

In this one-act fantasy play Alice's Adventure Under Ground by Christopher Hampton, has a style of surrealism playing with the imagination of a child. This play is based off and is adopted from the writings of Lewis Carroll. This leads it to have a logic all of its own, and presented towards the nonrealistic side of life.

This takes place in a fireside room in Christ Church where Lewis Carroll sits in loneliness to his thoughts. He looks up to a mirror where he sees Alice inside of it for a second before she disappears and he sets up tea. A moment or so later there is a knock and Alice enters the room. He proceeds to tell her stories that draw her into some of tales of Wonderland and as this happens, he and three others become all of the characters Alice would encounter in that strange land of logic. There is no costume change, just physical performances transform them from classy 1860s people to the bizarre people of unique logic.

Although the stories are presented from Alice's adventures of both books, the setting remains inside the room and it is though the imagination the transports us beyond the logic. The room seems be made up slightly abstractly, but it should have a sense that view comes from the eyes of a child. They would turn structure into a twisted surreal image of itself, trying to make it into a not unfriendly place of plain innocence.

Lewis Carroll in this play has that same kind of purity we can see in several conversations with Alice. Like when Alice is trying to convince Carroll the she isn't someone named Mabel, because she knows more things than her. Carroll tests her out.
Carroll: What's four times six?
Alice: Thirteen.
Carroll: Is London the capital of Paris?
Alice: Yes.

The logic from the books play nicely in all of the childlike scenes, always it creates wonder in common sense and tearing apart the ideas of what adults may think a proper. It reminds me of the purity of the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where what may seem true to life is not a constant everywhere. Only through our imaginations, can we let ourselves free from structure and see things with new eyes. Everything real will be surreal and that will become the normal