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Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson
Author: Lewis Carroll
Illustrator: Arthur Rackham
Release Date: May 19, 2009 [EBook #28885]
Language: English
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES
IN WONDERLAND
Printed in
England
'Tis two score years since Carroll's art,
With topsy-turvy magic,
Sent Alice wondering through a part
Half-comic and half-tragic.
Enchanting Alice! Black-and-white
Has made your deeds perennial;
And naught save "Chaos and old Night"
Can part you now from Tenniel;
But still you are a Type, and based
In Truth, like Lear and Hamlet;
And Types may be re-draped to taste
In cloth-of-gold or camlet.
Here comes afresh Costumier, then;
That Taste may gain a wrinkle
From him who drew with such deft pen
The rags of Rip Van Winkle!
With topsy-turvy magic,
Sent Alice wondering through a part
Half-comic and half-tragic.
Enchanting Alice! Black-and-white
Has made your deeds perennial;
And naught save "Chaos and old Night"
Can part you now from Tenniel;
But still you are a Type, and based
In Truth, like Lear and Hamlet;
And Types may be re-draped to taste
In cloth-of-gold or camlet.
Here comes afresh Costumier, then;
That Taste may gain a wrinkle
From him who drew with such deft pen
The rags of Rip Van Winkle!
AUSTIN DOBSON.
All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretence
Our wanderings to guide.
Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour,
Beneath such dreamy weather,
To beg a tale of breath too weak
To stir the tiniest feather!
Yet what can one poor voice avail
Against three tongues together?
Imperious Prima flashes forth
Her edict "to begin it"—
In gentler tone Secunda hopes
"There will be nonsense in it!"—
While Tertia interrupts the tale
Not more than once a minute.
Anon, to sudden silence won,
In fancy they pursue
The dream-child moving through a land
Of wonders wild and new,
In friendly chat with bird or beast—
And half believe it true.
And ever, as the story drained
The wells of fancy dry.
And faintly strove that weary one
To put the subject by,
"The rest next time—" "It is next time!"
The happy voices cry.
Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out—
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.
Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's wither'd wreath of flowers
Pluck'd in a far-off land.
CONTENTS
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LIST OF THE PLATES
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Alice
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Frontispiece |
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The Pool of Tears
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22 |
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They all crowded round it panting and asking,
"But who has won?"
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28 |
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"Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out
here?"
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36 |
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Advice from a Caterpillar
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50 |
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An unusually large saucepan flew close by it,
and very nearly carried it off
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70 |
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It grunted again so violently that she looked
down into its face in some alarm
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74 |
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A Mad Tea-Party
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84 |
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The Queen turned angrily away from him and said
to the Knave, "Turn them over"
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100 |
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The Queen never left off quarrelling with the
other players, and shouting "Off with his head!" or, "Off with her
head!"
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116 |
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The Mock Turtle drew a long breath and said,
"That's very curious"
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132 |
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Who stole the Tarts?
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140 |
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At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and
came flying down upon her
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158 |