Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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I loved reading Alice in Wonderland. It was beautifully written and allowed the reader to create their own images of what was happening because Carroll uses very little detail in his book.
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She was also the owner of the original manuscript (L.C. gave it to her), but had to sell at to raise money at old age to avoid eviction.
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And as far as the book, I don't know if children are obliged to read it for school in other countries, but I remember I enjoyed it as a child. However, I didn't find Through the Looking Glass as good as the wonderland of the first book. Now that I've seen the topic, I'm considering rereading both.
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Personally i think Carroll should have stuck to poetry, Hunting of the Snark is at least ok.
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As far as I can remember, I can say that the book was definately full of smart puns and clever word plays. So much to the point that thinking of a random scene reveals to have some deeper meaning. It introduces to us many wise characters who seem crazy at first but you don't want them to just those crazy-but-kind-hearted characters because you love them and therefore they have to be more than that. To give an example to how much depth I could manage to find, I just thought of the teaparty scene and realised that the table is filled with clean cups filled with tea but not everybody gets to drink. (This might be obvious to you but wasn't to me when I read it )
Even if Alice in Wonderland is living under cover as a children's book with talking animals and a bunch of playing cards, it still isn't hard to find that the book has so much more meaning to it than it can present to a kid. That is what makes it a book for adults (just like the Little Prince) as much as - maybe even more than - a book for kids. It may require a lot of deep analysis of the context to figure them all out but the book has wordplays leaking everywhere that it is impossible to miss all of them.
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