The Complete Alice: Slipcased Gift Set Book

This Kindle ebook edition of all of the books that Lewis Carroll wrote for Alice contains:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Alice's Adventures Under Ground
The Nursery "Alice"
The Hunting of the Snark


Do not worry, gentle reader! I have perversely decided on no spoilers in this review, despite that almost everybody has seen a movie version of these books! The plots are a little dull to describe for adults anyway except for those of us who immediately become prostrate with nostalgia. I think from the point of view of children, though, the novels are fantastically fun and seemingly lacking in anything moral to learn. Indeed, the author makes a point to prove education is nonsensical several times! Quite a relief, I think, for today's highly helicoptered and hoovered kids.

I thought this Kindle ebook a terrific edition as many of the original drawings - both by the legendary John Tenniel, Henry Holiday and also those by Lewis Carroll himself (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) have been wonderfully reproduced. It also includes a chapter, 'The Wasp in a Wig', which has been cut from the regularly published books. 'The Nursery "Alice" is a regurgitated version of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' written by Carroll for toddlers, and in my opinion, it totally sucks. The gorgeous and hilarious poem about a Snark hunt is a delight!

I had no idea for most of my life Great Literature college students and adults with Ph.D.'s were and are busy trying to read between the lines for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', seeing adult literary jokes, political agendas and insults against real-life people hidden in the text. There have been hundreds of books written analyzing Carroll's novels and life. My generation (baby boomers) re-interpreted the novel 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' in drug metaphors as young adults, even though all it is actually is an entertaining fantasy written first in 1862 for the entertainment of children. Many movies have been made of it although most do not exactly follow the plot of the book. I remember seeing a black and white 1933 movie version of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' starring Charlotte Henry ( ) on Saturday TV which I absolutely adored. In my memory, this particular movie follows the books almost exactly.

'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' is the first version written privately for Alice alone to see when she was seven years old, illustrated by Lewis Carroll himself. Later, an edited and more professionally illustrated version was published, 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', which is the one I first read myself as a pubescent teen (I saw the 1933 movie first on TV when I was in elementary school before reading the book).

Below is a link to a baby boomer favorite, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers video song about Alice.



This link is to the supposedly first ever Alice movie:



Here is a link to a completed list of every 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' movie ever made.