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Written by Lewis Carroll - Audio book performed by Susan O'Malley - Unabridged Fiction - 3 RETAIL EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 3 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (March 2005)

NOTE: RETAIL EDITIONS are packaged in attractive, compact cardboard or jewel-case shrink-wrapped boxes, with full-color art.

This enduring tale has been claimed to be a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children's literature, or even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. It was perhaps, as the author might have said, no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing up or down, or all turned round-as seen through the expert eyes of a child.

"The why of this book cannot, and need not, be put into words. Those for whom a child's mind is a sealed book, and see no divinity in a child's smile, would read such words in vain; while for anyone who has ever loved one true child, no words are needed." Ellen Terry

Lewis Carroll's enduring tale begins with a dream wherein Alice chases the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and encounters the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, and other delightfully eccentric characters. Throughout her fantastic journeys, Alice retains her reason, humor, and sense of justice.

Alice has become one of the great characters of imaginative literature, as immortal as Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn, Sherlock Holmes, and Dorothy Gale of Kansas. The book was something new in that it didn't insist on teaching a moral. It appealed to adults because it could be read on many levels, such as a satire on language, a political allegory, and a parody of Victorian children's literature. Many see it as a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing up—or down, or all turned around—as seen through the expert eyes of a child.

"Only Lewis Carroll has shown us the world-upside down as a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh." —Virginia Woolf, author

About the Author: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), English author, mathematician, and photographer. One of eleven children of a scholarly country parson, he studied mathematics at Oxford, obtained a university post, and then was ordained as a deacon but found true success with his masterpiece, Alice's Adventures Under Ground, now known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which originated as a story told to a young friend, Alice Liddell, during a boating trip on the Thames.