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《爱丽丝奇境历险记》讲述了小姑娘爱丽丝追赶一只揣着怀表、会说话的白兔,掉进了一个兔子洞,由此坠入了神奇的地下世界。在这个世界里,喝一口水就能缩得如同老鼠大小,吃一块蛋糕又会变成巨人,在这个世界里,似乎所有吃的东西都有古怪。她还遇到了一大堆人和动物:渡渡鸟、蜥蜴比尔、柴郡猫、疯帽匠、三月野兔、睡鼠、素甲鱼、鹰头狮、丑陋的公爵夫人。兔子洞里还另有乾坤,她在一扇小门后的大花园里遇到了一整副的扑克牌,牌里粗暴的红桃王后、老好人红桃国王和神气活现的红桃杰克(J)等等。在这个奇幻疯狂的世界里,似乎只有爱丽丝是唯一清醒的人,她不断探险,同时又不断追问“我是谁”,在探险的同时不断认识自我,不断成长,终于成长为一个“大”姑娘的时候,猛然惊醒,才发现原来这一切都是自己的一个梦境。
《爱丽丝穿镜奇幻记》讲述的是小姑娘爱丽丝刚下完一盘国际象棋,又对镜子里反映的东西好奇不已,以致穿镜而入,进入了镜子中的象棋世界。在这里,整个世界就是一个大棋盘,爱丽丝本人不过是这个棋盘中的一个小卒。小姑娘从自己所处的棋格开始,一步一步向前走,每一步棋都有奇妙的遭遇:爱丽丝会脚不沾地地飞着走路,那里的花朵和昆虫都会说话,白王后变成了绵羊女店主,她手中的编织针变成划船的桨,等等。镜中的故事大多取材于英国传统童谣,作者通过自己的想象加以展开,并详细叙述,童谣里的人和物活灵活现地呈现在读者面前:为一丁点儿小事打架的对头兄弟,行止傲慢的憨蛋和为争夺王冠而战的狮子和独角兽。看来只有发明家兼废品收藏家白骑士无法归类,但他恰好是作者本人的化身。等到爱丽丝终于走到第八格,当了王后之后,为所有这些人准备了一次盛大的宴会,宴会上的烤羊腿会鞠躬,布丁会说话,盛宴最终变成了一片混乱,忍无可忍的爱丽丝紧紧捉住摇晃的红后最后变成了一只小黑猫,爱丽丝也在摇晃中醒来,开始追问这到底是自己的梦呢,还是红国王的梦? 作者介绍
刘易斯·卡罗尔(Lewis Carroll),原名查尔斯·路德维希·道奇逊,与安徒生、格林兄弟齐名的世界顶尖儿童文学大师。原名查尔斯·路德维希·道奇逊。1832年1月出生于英国柴郡的一个 牧师家庭,1898年卒于萨里。曾在牛津大学基督堂学院任教达30年之久,业余爱好非常广泛,尤其喜爱儿童肖像摄影。他的第一本童书《爱丽丝奇境历险记》于1865年出版,当时就引起了巨大轰动,1871年又推出了续篇《爱丽丝穿镜奇幻记》,更是好评如潮。两部童书旋即风靡了整个世界,成为一代又一代孩子们乃至成人最喜爱的读物。
如果说刘易斯·卡罗尔因为这两部童书而被称为现代童话之父,丝毫没有夸大的成分。至少他的两部《爱丽丝》一改此前传统童话(包括《安徒生童话》、《格林童话》)充斥着杀戮和说教的风格,从而奠定了怪诞、奇幻的现代童话基调。仅从这点来说,就堪称跨时代的里程碑。
故事简介
Alice, sitting with her sister, is bored. A White Rabbit scurries by, muttering to himself and pulling a watch from his waistcoat pocket. Curious, Alice follows the animal down a rabbit hole, the first of many instances in which she is propelled by her curiosity.
Alice falls, landing in a pile of leaves. She finds herself in a hall and discovers a tiny key to a tiny door leading to a garden. She drinks from a bottle labeled DRINK ME, and shrinks down to ten inches tall. Too short to unlock the garden door, Alice begins to cry. She eats some cake, grows unusually tall, then fans herself and becomes exceedingly small. She finds herself swimming in a pool of her own giant tears. A group of animals gathers around her on the shore. A Mouse gives a speech and then a foot race ensues. Alice is soon left alone and begins to cry again.
The White Rabbit approaches. Thinking Alice is his housemaid, he sends her on an errand to fetch some things from his house. Alice drinks from a bottle she finds inside and grows until she fills the house, spilling out windows and bumping her head against the ceiling. Frightened, the Rabbit and his friends throw pebbles at Alice. The pebbles become cakes, which Alice eats to shrink. She escapes and meets a Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom, smoking. While he questions her identity and learning, Alice experiments with eating parts of the mushroom to alter her height.
After a brief conversation with a Pigeon, she visits the highly
peppered house of the ill-tempered Duchess and encounters the Cheshire Cat, traveling next to the house of the March Hare. Here the Hare, the Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse have tea. Confused, she leaves the party in disgust and finds her way to the garden she could not reach earlier.
In the garden, Alice encounters a very curious croquet game and a Queen of Hearts who threatens to chop off everyone's heads. Alice talks with the moralizing Duchess until the Queen threatens to execute the woman.
At the Queen's orders, a Gryphon leads Alice to the Mock Turtle. She listens to his life story and his instructions for dancing the Lobster
Quadrille. The two creatures ask Alice to recount her own adventures, which she does, until a Trial is announced in the distance.
The Trial concerns some tarts stolen from the Queen. When she is called to the witness stand, Alice begins to grow again and knocks over the jury box. The King orders her to leave the court because of her height. She refuses and continues to grow as the White Rabbit introduces more evidence. The Queen threatens to chop off Alice's head. Having grown to her full size, Alice calls the Queen and her soldiers a mere deck of cards, at which point the entire pack of them rises up and flies down upon her.
Alice awakes. Her sister is brushing off some leaves from Alice's face. She recounts her Adventures and runs off. Her sister watches Alice and begins to dream herself, imagining that the White Rabbit rushes by through the grass.
梗概:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym LewisCarroll。[1]It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (Wonderland) populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.[2] It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre,[2][3] and its narrative course and structure have been enormously influential,[3] especially in the fantasy genre.
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