The Nineteenth Century Top 20 — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Part 1

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Nineteenth Century Top 20 — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Part 1 | KacheliTV World Classics The novels begin. Episode Two of the season opens the first of its shorter works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll — Charles Lutwidge Dodgson of Christ Church, Oxford — seventh on the readers' list and told here in three parts. In this first part, Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit-hole and falls, very slowly, past cupboards and maps into a hall of locked doors. She eats and drinks things she perhaps should have left alone, and grows and shrinks like a telescope; she weeps a pool of her own tears, and swims in it with a very learned Mouse; she runs a Caucus-race, in which everybody wins and all must have prizes; and she is mistaken for the Rabbit's housemaid, grows to the very ceiling of his house, and sends poor Bill the Lizard flying up the chimney. Chapters one to four of the novel. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 0:35 The Nineteenth Century Top 20 — Episode Two 2:18 Chapter One — Down the Rabbit-Hole 15:36 Chapter Two — The Pool of Tears 28:35 Chapter Three — A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale 39:27 Chapter Four — The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill 55:24 Closing Theme Narrated by Scratch. The text is told exactly as Carroll published it, from the Project Gutenberg text; the period text stands as printed. The book's famous beheading cries — they belong to later parts — are threats that are never carried out anywhere in the book, and nothing in these chapters turns on harm; the comedy stands as Carroll wrote it. Music: 'Virtuoso Trio in Motion' (instrumental) opens and closes the programme and sounds between the chapters; 'Raga at Dawn' plays as the quiet background bed under the reading. Source text: Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), text from Project Gutenberg eBook #11, public domain. Part One of the telling (chapters I–IV); Parts Two and Three follow. Recorded for KacheliTV. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.