“Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” is a fairy tale written by the famous English writer, poet and novelist, and also an outstanding mathematician Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). One day, the girl Alice, running after a white rabbit, fell into a rabbit hole and found herself in another world full of strange creatures and amazing adventures. This book became a brilliant example of the literature of the absurd and nonsense poetry. Researchers of Carroll's work find in this book many mathematical, philosophical and linguistic puzzles, jokes and riddles, references and allusions. The book was first published in 1965.
I started reading this book in Russian (a very peculiar translation it was indeed) and found the book pretty boring and written badly (it was not even just a translation, it was a retold story). I never regretted switching to the original, which impressed me a lot. Now I get why people around the world love this story so much. I want to watch movies and cartoon about Alice's adventures, I want to check the other translations. Of course, I am going to read the second book about her.