Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Author: (English) Lewis Carroll
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Publish Date: 1994-02-01
Features: This book is a bilingual edition (English-Chinese). Carroll's imagination is extraordinarily rich, taking readers into a whimsical fairy-tale world, but he also possesses the rigorous logical thinking of a mathematician. The stories he writes appear absurd on the surface, yet they contain profound philosophical insights. He observes life with meticulous detail, using a touch of kindness, exaggeration, and humor to portray characters, including the anthropomorphic animals, all of whom have distinct personalities. Once their flaws are exaggerated in a cartoonish manner, they instantly become hilarious, and readers may find themselves or people around them sharing similar faults. Perhaps the White Knight himself holds our reflection! The author exposes the hypocritical promises of "jam only in yesterday or tomorrow," the rivalry between the lion and the unicorn for the crown, and the deceit of the elephant and the carpenter toward the young oyster, among other evils in life, but there is not a trace of moralizing. Among the lovable characters in the author's works, the young protagonist, Alice, stands out. She is innocent, empathetic, loves to think, and dares to express her opinions. In the characters depicted in children's literature worldwide, she truly deserves to be a shining and beautiful image.