Alice follows a White Rabbit with a pocket watch down a hole and lands in a world that keeps its own rules. She shrinks and grows by eating and drinking…
About the recording
Author
Lewis Carroll
Read by
Kristen McQuillin, Roger W. Barnett, Brad Bush and 7 other readers
Alice follows a White Rabbit with a pocket watch down a hole and lands in a world that keeps its own rules. She shrinks and grows by eating and drinking, swims in a pool of her own tears, takes advice from a caterpillar on a mushroom, sits at the Mad Hatter's tea party where it is always six o'clock, plays croquet with flamingos for the Queen of Hearts and gives evidence at the trial of the Knave who stole the tarts, until the whole court turns out to be nothing but a pack of cards.
Context and significance
Lewis Carroll, the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, first told the story to the young Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boat trip in 1862 and published it in 1865; its puns, parodies and logic games have delighted adults as much as children ever since. Ten LibriVox volunteers share the twelve chapters, under three hours in all.
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