Arpi in Wonderland: Alice in Wonderland for Boys E-Book

Lewis Carroll

• Herausgeber: Magdalene Press
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This collector's edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. Arpi in Wonderland is Alice in Wonderland for boys, with the main character being male (Arpi), and the main character pronoun and references changed to male. Everything else is the same as the original.This is intended to increase enthusiasm among boys to read and relate to this timeless classic. It tells the story of a boy named Arpi who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world full of unusual and peculiar creatures. The tale plays with logic and words which has given the story a lasting popularity. It is the most memorable example of the literary nonsense genre and, due to its unforgettable narrative, characters and imagery, it remains influential in both popular culture and literature. Lewis Carroll's masterpiece has inspired and entertained adults and children the world over and will continue to do so for centuries to come. "It leaves the reader with a new set of eyes and ears, and with enhanced imagination and joy." - Maggie Pagratis

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Arpi in Wonderland

Arpi in Wonderland

By Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

First published in 1865

ISBN 978-1-77335-037-0

Chapter 1

Down the Rabbit-Hole

Arpi was beginning to get very tired of sitting by his sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice he had peeped into the book his sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Arpi ‘without pictures or conversations?’

So he was considering in his own mind (as well as he could, for the hot day made him feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by him.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Arpi think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’ (when he thought it over afterwards, it occurred to him that he ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Arpi started to his feet, for it flashed across his mind that he had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, he ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.