Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 3)

One moment Alice is following a concerned white rabbit down a hole. The next, she is shrinking in a pool of her own tears, or growing so enormous she barely fits in the house. Wonderland is a place where cats grin indefinitely, caterpillars offer cryptic advice, and a Queen of Hearts screams for executions over nothing. Lewis Carroll's masterpiece operates on dream logic: rules exist only to be broken, conversations spiral into absurdity, and nothing - not even Alice's own body - behaves reliably. What remains constant is Alice herself: bewildered but bold, frustrated but curious, navigating a world that refuses to explain itself. This abridged edition preserves the essential adventures: the mad tea party, the croquet game with live hedgehogs and flamingos, the curious trial. It is a world where nonsense is the only sense, and somehow that makes perfect, glorious, terrifying, hilarious perfect. For readers of any age ready to abandon logic and fall.