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Summary of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carroll
This book was published in 1865, and the numbers of page are 124, including extras.
Genre: Story, Fiction.
Alice in wonderland is a story that Carroll created from a little girl that he met, called Alice Liddell.
In this book it tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar creatures, there she begins her adventures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.
Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit Hole
Alice it's sitting next to her sister, who is reading a book without drawings, and Alice begins to feel bored. While she is with a lost look, something crosses fast, and she decide to follow it, when she can see, discovered that was a rabbit with a strange dress and with a particular clock.
The rabbit enters to a hole and Alice try to see inside, but she fall into the hole. She remembers a lot of things, like her cat. She is falling, and falling... until she arrives to the ground, but the rabbit it's not there. Then she finds a small key to a door too small for her, and inside, she sees an attractive garden. She then discovers a bottle on a table labeled: Drink me, the contents of this cause to her to shrink too small to reach the key which she has left on the table, but now she finds a cake that says: Eat me, and then, she grew until the roof.
In my opinion, I really like this book because it's the original story, not the story of the movie that we know. This book it's more revelator, because it seems that Carroll was falling in love of the real Alice and her sisters.
Chapter 2: The pool of tears
After to eat the cake that said: eat me, she started to grow until the roof, but now she can't get into the fantastic garden, therefore, she started to cry. She created a pool of tears, and she said to herself: Stop to cry, you're a big big girl, more now. But she couldn't.
Then she could see the rabbit again and quickly and she

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