Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Audiobook (Free)

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This Penguin Classic is conducted by Katie Leung, star of the Harry Potter films. This definitive recording includes an Launch by Hugh Haughton.

Conjured up one ‘golden afternoon’ in 1862 to entertain Alice Liddell, the daughter from the dean of Carroll’s college, the desire worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict purchase turned upside-down. Following a white rabbit into his warren, Alice falls into a globe where croquet can be played with hedgehogs and flamingos, an infant becomes a pig, time works amok at a the Mad Hatter’s tea-party, a chaotic game of chess makes Alice a Queen as well as the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille. But amongst the anarchic humour and gleaming wordplay, unforgettable characters, puzzles and riddles, are poignant occasions of nostalgia to get a lost childhood. Original and experimental, modified into countless film and tv versions as Alice in Wonderland, the Alice books give readers a screen on both child and adult worlds.