Lewis Carroll (Duplicate): Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Paperback, 2016, Ulverscroft)
Livre broché, 130 pages
Langue : English
Publié 27 novembre 2016 par Ulverscroft.
One hot, lazy summer's afternoon, young Alice is drowsing on a grassy bank, idly pondering upon daisy-chains. To her utter surprise, she witnesses a waistcoated White Rabbit flash past, fretting over his lateness. Interest piqued, she follows him down a rabbit-hole — and ends up falling headlong into a bizarre and wondrous land... Encountering peculiarities from a pipe- smoking caterpillar to a grinning Cheshire cat, a lachrymose Mock Turtle to a decidedly odd tea-party (not to mention the rather disquieting fluctuation of her own size), Alice must rely on her wits to navigate this strange world — and face down the murderous tyranny of the Queen of Hearts... --back cover
As such an often referenced work I was expecting there to be more inside. But in the end it's just a small children's book story without much happening. There's a surprising amount of poetry and growing and shrinking involved though.
