If I had been alive during the nineteenth century, I could have probably claimed responsibility for the novels unparalleled sales due to the fact that I own multiple copies of each book within the series.
The sequel to the original novel, Through the Looking Glass, sold out seven weeks after it was published.
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In fact, the original book in the series has been translated into over 176 languages. In fact, since the books were originally published in 1865 they have never spent a single moment out of print.
I was not exaggerating when I said that the Alice novels are some of the most universally loved novels of all time. How wonderful is it for Carroll to immortalize them and their lives like that? I hope that they smiled and felt like the three most special girls in the entire world. For example, when the Mock Turtle explains that he receives lessons in drawing, sketching, and “fainting in coils” from an “old conger-eel that used to come once a week,” the three Liddell girls would have seen their own art tutor in that turtle.Įven though these minor details of the novel did not translate to the novels wider audience, I’d like to think that every single one of those three little Liddell girls that read the finalized novel saw themselves and their lives in its pages. The real Alice was one of Henry Liddell’s three daughters who Carroll often delighted by entertaining them with stories that he had invented. A museum exhibit on the famed series ( whose exhibit can be explored online) has revealed that many of the elements of the novels' plot and the minor characters that felt absurd and nonsensical to the audience we actually inspired by real people, places, and experiences, that each and every one of the Liddell girls would have recognized from their own lives. The real Alice was a little girl who bore the same name as her fictional counterpart. Though many people have emphasized the nonsensical and trippy notion of the series, it was often noted that the true Alice would have found nothing strange about the story. Other attempts to solve the riddle include the fact that they both start with an “r” sound and that “Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both.” His answer read “Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are VERY flat and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front.” Carroll intentionally spelt never as “nevar” in his answer in order to create the word “raven” spelt backwards (though his “spelling mistake” has irritated fans all over the world). However, after being harassed by fans for decades, Carroll eventually supplied readers with an answer that was nearly as nonsensical as the original riddle itself. Lewis Carroll made the riddle up for the novel but never thought of an answer to go with it.
The fact that this riddle has no answer was referenced in Tim Burton’s 2010 live-action adaptation when Alice finally asks the Mad Hatter for the answer to the riddle and he reveals that he has no idea. It turns out that there is no answer to this riddle. But what answer does Carroll provide for the riddle that has plagued us for decades? Well, in short, he doesn’t. Why IS a raven like a writing desk? Do you have any theories? I’ve always thought that they both had that Gothic aesthetic and tend to go hand in hand. Though the true meaning behind the series is nowhere as tantalizing as your older brother once made it seem, I personally feel as though that the true inspiration behind the series is far more entertaining.Īh, the question to end all questions. So there you go, these stories were not the product of a trip through illness or a romp with substances but rather a story-loving man’s math focus rage. The second source of inspiration was Carroll’s intense hatred of 19th-century innovations in mathematics (including the advent of imaginary numbers.) The riddles that the Mad Hatter, the caterpillar, and Alice recite throughout the novel were supposed to act as a reflection on the increasing abstraction that dominated mathematics in Victorian England. The first source (which will be expanded later in this article) stemmed from an afternoon of babysitting and storytelling between Carroll and his friend, Henry Liddell’s three daughters. The true inspiration for the tale came from two sources in Carroll’s life. The true inspiration behind Alice’s adventures is a lot less titillating than these other salacious theories that have been floating around the interwebs for years. No, Alice isn’t an allegory for the ingestion of mind-altering substances or a metaphor for mental illness, or whatever other edgy theory your older brother told you.
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