《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》是一部膾炙人口的經典兒童文學，曾被改編為多種版本，包括舞台劇、動畫和電視電影等。其內容主題亦受到各個領域的探討，例如政治學、心理學等等，是一本常被引用和分析的文學著作。
文中敘述一名擁有強烈好奇心的小女孩愛麗絲，她巧遇穿著小背心、口中唸唸有詞的「白兔先生」，隨其腳步跳進兔子洞裡，為一連串的奇幻冒險拉開序幕。在Lewis Carroll筆下的「仙境」裡，所有不可能的事都變成可能。在好奇心的驅使下，愛麗絲拋開不安，在荒誕奇妙的世界裡，努力做一切她認為對的事情，甚至勇於站出來對抗仙境中人人懼怕的紅心皇后。
由於Lewis Carroll是一位數學家，故事中巧妙地摻揉許多邏輯及猜謎情節，隨著不同年紀的人們閱讀，可以擁有不一樣的趣味。帽商、五月兔、會隱形的貓、抽著水煙的毛毛蟲、成天嚷著砍頭的紅心皇后，還有撲克牌兵團，陪伴了無數的孩子們度過想像力最豐富的童年。
作者曾寫過如下的一段話：
我最擔心的，是我寫出來的東西言之無物。文字透過我們的使用，應該要能傳達出更多的弦外之音。一本書所能傳達的，應該遠遠超乎作者所想表達的。不論書中講了什麼意味深長的話，書籍本身所具有的意義，我樂於奉受。
每個人心中都有一片屬於自己的「仙境」，就讓我們跟著愛麗絲一起享受奇幻的冒險吧！
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a book that was written in 1865 by Lewis Carroll. This story has been made into several movies and television shows. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by talking creatures and playing cards.
Although Lewis Carroll invented this novel for children, many scholars have discovered various underlying influences in his work. This book has been a favorite subject for analysis, as the story lends itself to various interpretations.
I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book. (– Lewis Carroll)
作者簡介
路易士．卡洛爾（Lewis Carroll）
本名查理士．道格森（Charles Dodgson）是一名數學家、邏輯學家，也是一位作家，於牛津大學基督學院畢業後，留在母校擔任數學講師。興趣是邏輯猜謎及數學研究。最著名的作品為《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》及《愛麗絲鏡中奇遇》（Through the Looking-Glass），其中1865年的《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》為其成名作。
卡洛爾為母校院長的女兒編寫的故事，原名為《愛麗絲地底探險記》（Alice’s Adventure Underground），是《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》最早的雛形。重新改寫之後，在1865年，以書名《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》問世，造成轟動，風靡百餘年之後的今天，《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》依然是童話中的不朽經典。
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) is an English author, mathematician, logician, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Many people have seen Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a prime example of the limit-breaking book from the old tradition illuminating the new one. |
