I would like to recommend a book called "Alice's Adventures in Wonderful Lands". Please help me think of the reasons for the recommendation (content introduction).

Alice sat on the bank of the river next to her sister for a long time. Since there was nothing to do, she began to feel tired. She looked at the book her sister was reading again and again, but in the book There were no pictures and no dialogue, and Alice thought:

"What's the point of a book if there are no pictures and no dialogue in it?"

The heat made her very sleepy. , even confused, but Alice still considered seriously, could the pleasure of making a daisy wreath be worth the trouble of picking daisies? At this moment, a white rabbit with pink eyes suddenly ran past her.

Alice was not surprised, and even heard the Rabbit say to himself: "Oh, dear, oh, dear, I am too late."

This is the classic opening chapter of Alice in Wonderland. In the summer, on a boring afternoon by the river bank, a little girl was daydreaming. She followed a rabbit and jumped into the hole unknowingly, thus entering an absurd and magical world.

Different from the "logical" fantasy worlds in previous fairy tales, this world is bizarre, funny and absurd. Alice drank a small bottle of drink and shrank to the size of her thumb; after eating a piece of cake, she grew taller and was so big that she was stuck in the door; the girl started crying, and her tears turned into pools of tears; she picked up the fan thrown by the rabbit and fanned it again. He turned into a villain and almost drowned in his own tears... In this fantasy world, babies can only make pig noises and turn into piglets when placed on the ground; there are mice who can tell the driest stories and smile. Cats that appear and disappear, eggs with long noses and eyes, turtles that shed tears sadly, caterpillars smoking oriental hookah pipes, and a poker kingdom ruled by the Queen of Hearts Q.

Finally, Alice participated in a trial. She protested loudly because she was dissatisfied with the absurd and barbaric trial and verdict. The queen ordered her to be beheaded, saying without fear: "Who cares about you? You are just "A deck of cards."

At this moment, the whole deck of cards rose into the air and fell on her. She let out a small scream of surprise and anger as she threw the cards away. But she found herself lying on the bank of the river, her head still resting on her sister's lap, and her sister was gently removing the dead leaves that had fallen on her face.

"Wake up, dear Alice," said her sister, "look how long you have been asleep!"

"Alice in Wonderland", this one is almost entirely It is a story composed of children's imaginary world, a truly told story. The storyteller is Lewis Carroll (originally known as "Charles Lutwidge Dodgson", 1832-1898), the storytellers are Alice Liddell and her sisters, and the time of telling the story is 1862 summer of the year. This is an interesting story in itself.

We have to go back to 1855, when Carroll had just finished studying mathematics at Oxford University and obtained the position of priest and mathematics lecturer (strikingly similar to the two mentioned above). He is a young man with wide interests and high energy. He frequently contributed articles to magazines (hence the pen name "Carol"), wrote absurd and playful limericks (nonsense), and was fascinated by the emerging photography industry.

By chance, he met Principal Liddell and his family and became good friends with them. The Liddell family has one boy and three girls. Carol especially likes to play with the three little girls, especially the second daughter Alice. He began to become a frequent visitor to Liddell's house, and his interaction with the children deepened day by day.

In the summer of 1862, Carroll took three girls rafting on the Thames River, and he made up this "Wonderland Story" for the children. The day when the story was told for the first time was July 4th. Years later, Carol still remembered it firmly:

“Time flies, and the years fly by. I can still clearly remember the day when the story was born. 'Golden Afternoon', everything seems like just yesterday - the sky is blue, cloudless, the river is as clear as a mirror, the boat floats lazily, and the sound of the water echoes through the sleepy scenery. A glimmer of life, three faces full of longing, eagerly waiting for news from the fairy tale kingdom..."

If you want to know what is the most unique about Carroll's Alice story? place? So please close your eyes and imagine him telling the story. Carol, the storyteller, was full of love, poetry, and joy. He tried his best to make these children happy and achieve maximum spiritual pleasure. This is the key to the fascination of so many children with his story.

It was not until 1865 that the book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was officially published. Before that, Carroll himself just compiled it into a complete text story and gave it to little Alice. Kingsley, who was a guest at Liddell's house, accidentally read the manuscript and was full of praise. Later, he and Macdonald strongly encouraged Carroll to perfect the story and publish it as a book. This is also a good story.

More than 100 years have passed. Although the two professional writers at that time also left behind classic fairy tales, in terms of influence, they cannot compete with the fairy tales compiled by this amateur writer on a whim. What's the reason? We might as well think about it.

Finally, let me tell you one interesting thing about this book.

The first Chinese translation of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was translated by language master Mr. Zhao Yuanren and published by the Commercial Press in 1922. Mr. Zhao particularly emphasized that this book is "another philosophical and ethical reference book." Indeed, many philosophy books and mathematics papers have quoted a large number of words from this fairy tale.

This story fascinates both children and scientists. Do you dare to say that it is just a simple fairy tale?