"Appreciating Lewis Carroll's Alice livres does not require extensive knowledge of their historical setting and meaning. Their continuous popularity among large and varied audiences over the last 150 years shows its enduring accessibility." (Rackin,3)
Alice is like the bible, with many dedicated admirers and critics who have never read them readily accepting derived work as canonical truths. It is erroneous to assume that Alice is a completely random, plotless concoction of a drug-fueled imagination. Though immensely puzzling, the discursive, episodic livres are full of logic games, riddles,...
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