In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the "Alice books--with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.--by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian children's literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, "Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about a trials and tribulations of growing up--or down, or all tumed round--as seen through the expert eyes of a child. 言わずと知れたルイス・キャロルによるイギリス児童小説の古典的名作。 作中には多くの言葉遊び、パロディなどが多用されており大人も読み応えのある内容。 言わずと知れたルイス・キャロルによるイギリス児童小説の古典的名作。 作中には多くの言葉遊び、パロディなどが多用されており大人も読み応えのある内容。