爱丽丝梦游仙境与镜中奇遇记:ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND & THROUGH THE LOOKING-CLASS

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

CHAPTER 1 Down the Rabbit-Hole

CHAPTER 2 The Pool of Tears

CHAPTER 3 A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

CHAPTER 4 The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

CHAPTER 5 Advice from a Caterpillar

CHAPTER 6 Pig and Pepper

CHAPTER 7 A Mad Tea-Party

CHAPTER 8 The Queen’s Croquet-Ground

CHAPTER 9 The Mock Turtle’s Story

CHAPTER 10 The Lobster Quadrille

CHAPTER 11 Who Stole the Tarts?

CHAPTER 12 Alice’s Evidence

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

CHAPTER 1 Looking-Glass House

CHAPTER 2 The Garden of Live Flowers

CHAPTER 3 Looking-Glass Insects

CHAPTER 4 Tweedledum and Tweedledee

CHAPTER 5 Wool and Water

CHAPTER 6 Humpty Dumpty

CHAPTER 7 The Lion and the Unicorn

CHAPTER 8 “It’s my own Invention”

CHAPTER 9 Queen Alice

CHAPTER 10 Shaking

CHAPTER 11 Waking

DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE

Alice was beginning toget very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing todo: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but ithad no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thoughtAlice, “without pictures or conversations?”

So she was consideringin her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel verysleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worththe trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbitwith pink eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing so veryremarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of theway to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”(when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to havewondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when theRabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoatpocket, and looked at it, andthen hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind thatshe had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watchto take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field afterit, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole underthe hedge.

In another moment downwent Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get outagain. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and thendipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think aboutstopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.

Either the well wasvery deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went downto look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she triedto look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything;then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filledwith cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hungupon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labeled“ORANGE MARMALADE”, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did notlike to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it intoone of the cupboards as she fell past it.

“Well!” thought Aliceto herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs! How brave they’ll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anythingabout it, even if I fell off the top of the house!” (Which was very likelytrue.)

Down, down, down.Would the fall never come to an end? “I wonder how many miles I’vefallen by this time?” she said aloud. “I must be getting somewhere near thecentre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, Ithink—” (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in herlessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very goodopportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen toher, still it was good practice to say it over) “—yes, that’s about the rightdistance—but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?” (Alice hadno idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nicegrand words to say.)

Presently she beganagain. “I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funnyit’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their headsdownward! The Antipathies, I think—”

(shewas rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn’tsound at all the right word) “—but I shall have to ask them what the name ofthe country is, you know. Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?”(and she tried to curtsey as she spoke—fancy, curtseying as you’refalling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) “And what anignorant little girl she’ll

thinkme for asking! No, it’ll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written upsomewhere.”