【本期话题】Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. 可能大家都知道丽丝漫游仙境的主人公小爱丽丝的原型来自牛津大学任基督堂学院院长的三女儿爱丽丝里德尔，但是帽子先生和兔子的茶会，绵羊的杂货店，小说中出现的各具特色的人物都是实际存在的人物，他们的灵感来自于刘易斯卡洛尔的球友，或者牛津杂货店脾气暴躁的老奶奶
部分小说中超现实的场景，例如深不见底的兔子洞等都取材自基督堂学院内或者牛津郊外。【更多故事尽在TalkOnline】

Alice Pleasance Liddell was born in 1852.
Her father was the Dean of Christchurch College, Oxford, where Alice, with her three sisters and brother, spent most of her childhood.
Charles Dodgson was also resident at Christchurch where he taught mathmatics.
He first met Alice through his hobby of photography and the two struck up a friendship which would eventually inspire the"Alice" stories. Dodgson often took Alice and her sisters on outings around Oxford, and many of the places they went and the things they saw found their way into the stories.
The members of the boating party that first heard Carroll's tale all show up in Chapter 3 ("A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale") in one form or another. There is, of course, Alice herself, while Carroll, or Charles Dodgson, is caricatured as the Dodo.
Carroll is known as the Dodo because Dodgson stuttered when he spoke, thus if he spoke his last name it would be Do-Do-Dodgson. The Duck refers to Rev. Robinson Duckworth, the Lory to Lorina Liddell, and the Eaglet to Edith Liddell.
Bill the Lizard may be a play on the name of Benjamin Disraeli. One of Tenniel's illustrations in Through the Looking-Glass depicts the character referred to as the "Man in White Paper" (whom Alice meets as a fellow passenger riding on the train with her), as a caricature of Disraeli, wearing a paper hat. The illustrations of the Lion and the Unicorn also bear a striking resemblance to Tenniel's Punch illustrations of Gladstone and Disraeli.
All of the Oxford 'Alice locations' still exist and you can visit them yourself.
You can even hire a boat at Salters' Boatyard and head upriver in Alices' wake to see the treacle well at Binsey and then try to find the spot where the picnic took place at Godstow Lock.
这位内向口吃的大学老师不仅有写作这一个令人惊讶的才能
事实上刘易斯.卡洛尔是个相当多才多艺的人,除了在牛津大学任基督堂学院任教时发表的几本数学著作之外,他还喜好摄影,并出版过数本影集尽管被疾病,抑郁缠身并受到非议。。。爱丽丝漫游仙境仍然以他幽默风趣的叙事方式，富有魅力的奇幻色彩，深受全世界儿童和大人们的喜爱 来TalkOnline听故事，学美语。身在中国，学在美国！立刻加入

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