Alice in Wonderland: The Original 1865 Edition With Complete Illustrations By Sir John Tenniel (A Classic Novel of Lewis Carroll)

As a child, I lived beside Alice as if she were a real girl I could reach through a looking glass. She wasn’t a story to me, but a companion—my muse before I even knew what that word meant. I collected her the way some people collect saints: tiny statues, illustrations, fragments of Wonderland printed on teacups and bookmarks. I visited her house in Guilford, Surrey in my thirties, stood where she stood, traced the doorway with my fingers, and bought a signed copy of a book I had somehow never read. It felt less like purchasing literature and more like claiming a piece of myself. I moved through life as she does—curious, questioning, refusing to accept the rules of absurd adults. I have always lived down the rabbit hole, where imagination isn’t escape, but truth in disguise. And yet I had never opened the actual pages that birthed the girl who shaped my mind. Reading Alice in Wonderland now is not discovery—it is recognition. Every word feels inherited, as if I’ve finally read the biography of someone I already knew intimately. What surprised me most is not the nonsense, but how logical it is. Wonderland is a world where language exposes power, where identity is slippery, and where curiosity is rebellion. It isn’t a children’s fantasy; it’s a satire for anyone who refuses to be tamed by convention. Lewis Carroll didn’t simply write a story for Alice—he wrote a mirror. And after a lifetime of following her, it feels like I finally stepped through it. Reading Alice at last doesn’t feel like checking a classic off a list. It feels like coming home to a friend who has been whispering to me my whole life, waiting patiently for me to read the words she’d been living in my imagination all along.

I absolutely loved it, I’ve obviously watched the films and I’ve always loved them and the idea of this world that only alice knows about but reading the book itself (I listened to half on audio book and read the rest) is amazing to see the differences and the way that Lewis creates this world through words is honestly incredible! The only reason I’ve only given it 4 stars is because I put it in the same sort of category as the wizard of oz (which I read last year) and the wizard of oz was ever so slightly better and that got a 5 star review

It was ok, I didn't like Alice, she was so.. annoying.. And not humble at all, she was very spoiled.. and mean sometimes..

Alittle hard to follow at times, but nonetheless whimsical and full of imagination!

This book has never disappointed me!