Lewis Carroll
After stepping through the looking glass, Lewis Carroll's beloved heroine Alice finds herself yet again in an enchanting alternate world where she meets The White Knight, The Jabberwock and Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and re-encounters the nonsensical Red Queen. Filled with Carroll's delightfully absurd characters and elaborately complex happenings, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There exemplifies the literary nonsense genre that
...This special edition brings together both of Lewis Carroll's marvelous tales set in the whimsical world beyond the looking glass and down the rabbit hole. Caroll's first novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, finds Alice stuck in Wonderland, surrounded by curious creatures and with no idea of how to return home. With questionable aid from the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, Alice eventually finds her way back home. But the
...Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. All of them were covered in Alice's now cold and congealed blood, which made them even tastier looking to poor hungry Alice.
When little Alice follows the Black Rat down into the gaping darkness of an open grave, she falls and falls. And soon
...Inmortales aventuras para grandes y niños. Alicia en el país de las Maravillas es una de esas obras mágicas de la literatura que apela tanto a grandes como a niños, ya que para los primeros está la ironía y el fino humor con que Carroll se burlaba de las convenciones sociales de su tiempo, mientras que los más pequeños pueden seguir, también con una sonrisa, las increíbles aventuras de Alicia en ese lugar donde todo parece suceder
...Ahora puedes escuchar Alicia en el país de las maravillas, uno de los libros más emblemáticos de la literatura occidental de todos los tiempos.
Un caluroso día de verano, Alicia decide seguir a un conejo blanco con chaleco y reloj que parece tener mucha prisa, es más, no hace más que repetir la frase «¡Dios mío, Dios mío! ¡Qué tarde voy a llegar!». Y dentro de su madriguera llegará a un reino maravilloso donde
...Alan Bennett reads five much-loved stories by Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll and AA Milne.
Alan Bennett's distinctive readings of these cherished children's stories have become classics in their own right. Portraying each character in his own inimitable fashion, his delightfully expressive voice perfectly conveys the sparkling humour, charm and magic of these timeless tales.
The Wind in the Willows tells the classic story of Ratty,
12) A blade so black
13) Unbirthday
14) Queen of hearts
15) War of the cards
A varied collection of short stories which will keep the listener constantly amused, Nigel Hawthorne extracts every ounce of humour in an exemplary reading.
Stories included:
Brugglesmith by Rudyard Kipling
The Cricket Match from England, Their England by A.G. Macdonell
Reginald on House Parties by Saki
The Great Winglebury Duel by Charles Dickens
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Ken Campbell, Windsor Davies, John Bird and John Fortune star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.
When Alice leans too close to the Looking Glass, she suddenly finds herself in a land of caustic characters and twisted logic – a back-to-front world where flowers can talk, Queens can run and a crown could depend on a game of chess... In her bid to become Queen of the Chess Board, Alice must escape the fearful Jabberwock and get