/lit/ - Literature

>>18314552

I read chapter 1 aloud to myself last night. :)

>>18314610
very based.
was that your first time reading it ?

>>18314778

As a matter of fact, yes. Of course, I am familiar with the actual story through Disney and general cultural osmosis, but this is the first go-around. Now I sorta-want to keep reading but I'm too busy with a chess problem at the moment.

I didn't get just any version either. I got the Annotated Alice, in a nice big hardback, in a used bookstore for all of 10bux per an anon's recommendation. I almost settled for some Oxbridge annotated paperback (which would have been fine too but still). I am forcing myself to ignore the copious notes and just read the story on the first go-around, but the notes do look very thoughtful, and will warrant a later look.

>>18314552
Funny, that's exactly what Carroll said about 7-year-old girls.

>>18314552
The 1860s were peak. Dostoyevsky in Russia. Alice in wonderland in the UK and stonewall jackson and Sherman in the US

Let us read aloud from the beginning of chapter two: "Pool of Tears":

"CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!"

Nowadays, it is easy to read this sort of stuff as /d/-tier fetishism.

Was Alice, dare I say it, based?

what are other based novels like this one?
I already read Lolita

>>18314800
enjoy it as much as you can anon. i hope it won't disappoint.

>>18314552
Nope. The book is extremely based. Carroll's intro to logic is also pretty based.

>>18315120

ONE PILL MAKES YOU LARGER AND

>>18314552
Alice is Wonderland itself is ordinary, the sequel is good. Most of the tropes that broke through into popular culture, other than follow the white rabbit, come from Through the Looking Glass.

>>18314552
I read chapter 1 two days ago in Russian, because I'm learning it

>>18314552
The Alice books are indeed great but that picture is awful. Only one man ever drew Alice as she should be drawn, and that man was Tenniel.

i have the penguin anniversary edition from 1998 or something? it's very good, great long introduction by the editor and the endnotes to each chapter add tremendously to the overall reading experience

>>18315601
is this available as an ebook

>>18316231
this looks like the one
3lib.net/book/1997009/10ae6c

Anyone know if this is a good translation

>>18316274
thank you very very much anon. you're a hero

>>18314808
Dangerously based carroll

>>18314848
cute and funny

>>18314817
who was writing in germany at that time

>>18314552
I tried to get into it, but I struggled, and even though I forced myself, it wasn't as enjoyable as I'd perhaps hoped.

That's also what Carroll said.

>>18314552
One of the greatest works of imagination, for sure.

>>18318721
Kek. But you still got filtered, anon.