Bücher von Lewis Carroll

Als das weiße Kaninchen mit den roten Augen auf seine Uhr schaut, gibt es für Alice kein Halten mehr - und ein durch und durch kurioses, weltberühmtes Abenteuer nimmt seinen Lauf. Manuela Adreanis magische Adaption dieses Klassikers der englischen Literatur präsentiert Hutmacher, Herzkönigin, rauchende Raupe und natürlich die unvergleichliche Grinsekatze in einem zeitlos-modernen Gewand.

Der Kinderbuchklassiker von Lewis Carroll als illustrierte GeschenkausgabeAls Alice durch den Spiegel im Ankleidezimmer tritt, findet sie sich in einer bizarren Welt wieder, in der sprechende Schachfiguren umherwandern und nichts so ist, wie es scheint. Alice ist gefangen in einem merkwürdigen Schachspiel und trifft viele seltsame Persönlichkeiten, wie die streitlustigen Twiedeldum und Twiedeldi, den Löwen und das Einhorn oder die aufbrausende Schwarze Königin. Diese ungekürzte Neuübersetzung der wunderbaren Erzählung voller sprühendem Wortwitz und anarchischem Humor wurde genial illustriert von Robert Ingpen.

An einem sonnigen Tage sitzt Alice mit ihrer Schwester im Garten, als sie völlig unverhofft eine sehr sonderbare Reise antritt. Sie weiß kaum, wie ihr geschieht, ist es ihr doch plötzlich möglich, mit Tieren zu sprechen und mit äußerst wunderlichen Gesellen unglaublich kuriose Erlebnisse zu teilen. Alice im Wunderland ist ein phantasievoller Klassiker der englischsprachigen Literatur und eine zeitlose Inspiration...

Übersetzung und Anmerkungen von Harald RaykowskiIllustrationen von John Tenniel. Eine der berühmtesten Geschichten der Welt. Die kleine Alice läuft hinter einem Kaninchen her in dessen Bau - und fällt tief ins Erdinnere. Dort wird sie ganz winzig, und sie kann plötzlich mit den Tieren sprechen, die da wohnen, und es gibt auch ein paar seltsame Menschen- und Fabelwesen ... Was nun geschieht, Nettes und Aufregendes, überkugelt sich fast immer ins Phantastische. Und was disputiert und diskutiert wird, kippt fast immer um ins Lustig-Absurde. Also: Phantasy und Nonsens. Die anmutig übermütige (und charmant altkluge) Alice besteht alle Absonderlichkeiten mit gutem Stil, aufmerksam zuhörend, tapfer sich Mühe gebend, liebevoll: eine köstliche Kinder-Helden-Gestalt. Das millionenfach verbreitete und meist einfach als wunderschön drauflos fabulierte Geschichte gelesene Buch wird von Harald Raykowski als literarisches Kunstwerk ernstgenommen. Mit Hilfe seiner Übersetzung, die dem Originaltext gegenübersteht, kann auch ein Leser, der im Englischen nicht völlig zu Hause ist, viele der Nuancen herausspüren. Anmerkungen zu einigen beziehungsreichen Wörtern und Wendungen und ein Nachwort über den Autor Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) geben interessante Hinweise. Der hier vorliegende Text ist gegenüber der Originalfassung um ca. 30 Zeilen gekürzt, eine Erklärung dafür findet sich in den Anmerkungen.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it: -it was the black kitten's fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn't have had any hand in the mischief.The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr-no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle."Oh, you wicked little thing!" cried Alice, catching up the kitten, and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace. "Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!" she added, looking reproachfully at the old cat, and speaking in as cross a voice as she could manage-and then she scrambled back into the arm-chair, taking the kitten and the worsted with her, and began winding up the ball again. But she didn't get on very fast, as she was talking all the time, sometimes to the kitten, and sometimes to herself. Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it might."Do you know what to-morrow is, Kitty?" Alice began. "You'd have guessed if you'd been up in the window with me-only Dinah was making you tidy, so you couldn't. I was watching the boys getting in sticks for the bonfire-and it wants plenty of sticks, Kitty! Only it got so cold, and it snowed so, they had to leave off. Never mind, Kitty, we'll go and see the bonfire to-morrow." Here Alice wound two or three turns of the worsted round the kitten's neck, just to see how it would look: this led to a scramble, in which the ball rolled down upon the floor, and yards and yards of it got unwound again.4"Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty," Alice went on as soon as they were comfortably settled again, "when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow! And you'd have deserved it, you little mischievous darling! What have you got to say for yourself? Now don't interrupt me!" she went on, holding up one finger

Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures of Wonderland" translated into Irish by Nicholas Williams, in a bilingual volume with the English original text facing the Irish text.

I almost wish I hadn''t gone down that rabbit-hole-and yet-and yet-it''s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!The Alice in Wonderland Omnibus edition is also available in a beautiful hardcover from Reader''s Library Classics (ISBN: 9781954839045)Presented here is a paperback edition of Lewis Carroll''s Alice series of books including Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. Included are all 90+ of the original publications'' John Tenniel illustrations properly formatted and sized within the story. Read the Alice saga the way it was meant to be read.Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland: Down the rabbit hole away little Alice goes. Follow her at your own peril, but beware of the world you are about to enter. One with a decapitation-crazed queen, an unintelligible duchess, a sleepy dormouse, a chronically late rabbit, a witty Cheshire cat, a blue hookah-smoking caterpillar, a Hatter and a March Hare hosting a mad tea party, and a caucus race so bewildering that the best way to explain it is just to do it.Through the Looking Glass: Adventure, mayhem, and madness continue for young Alice after she climbs through the mirror hanging above her fireplace''s mantel. Into the reflective world she travels, and soon she discovers that just as everything is backward in a mirror''s reflection, so is everything, from backward sentences to backward logic, in the mirror world. Rank by rank, Alice must cross through an enormous chess board as she meets a fantastical motley crew of creatures, chess pieces, and humans alike. What shall happen when little Alice reaches the end of the chess board?

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children''s fiction, notably Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems "Jabberwocky" and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor, and Anglican deacon. Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher.

The Hunting of the Snark (1876) was a fantastical "nonsense" poem written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898) and illustrated by by Henry Holiday. The poem explores the adventures of a bizarre crew of nine tradesmen and one beaver, who sets off to find the snark. It received largely mixed reviews from Carroll''s contemporary reviewers, but was enormously popular with the public, having been reprinted seventeen times between 1876 and 1908, and has seen various adaptations into musicals, opera, theatre, plays and music. Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti reputedly became convinced that the poem was about him.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children''s fiction, notably Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems "Jabberwocky" and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor, and Anglican deacon. Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children''s fiction, notably Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems "Jabberwocky" and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor, and Anglican deacon. Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher.