Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

I like it of course. I'm not crazy about it but I like it. It has an aura of innocence about it, it "feels" of childhood dreams.. I like how Alice acts and talks like an educated little girl, like she really behaves like a child. I like that this book is written in "proper English", and I like that there isn't any answer to the Hatter's riddle, since after all this is all but a child's dream. This  story was not changed in the Disney movie. It's so full of lovely nonsense that they needed not change a thing to make it good :-p
It starts with Alice feeling bored and sleepy :-) then she sees the white rabbit and follows him out of curiosity. She falls for a long long time and lands with no damage, like it only happens in dreams. There's a small door, leading into a beautiful garden, but she's too big. There's a little key on the table that could open it if she was the right size. The bottle labelled "drink me" makes her little but she forgot to take the little key, so she eats the little "eat me" cake and becomes 9 foot high and can't move. She starts crying, creating a big pool of tears, and she also scares off the rabbit who in his haste drops his gloves and fan, which she takes because she feels very hot indeed. With the fanning comes the shrinking, and she's deep in the pool of tears, suddenly filling with animals. She upsets a mouse talking about her beloved cat Dinah and of a farmer's dog, a terrier as good as Dinah at caching rats. They both swim to the shore where many other animals gather to hear his story on why he hates cats and dogs. He is, however, offended again and goes away, right after the caucus-race to dry themselves. Alice speaks again of Dinah and all the birds go away too. Alice is now alone, when the white rabbit comes and somehow mistakes her for his maid Mary Ann and sends her to his home to look for his gloves and fan. She goes and she finds them, but then stops to drink something out of curiosity: "I'll just see what this bottle does" and she grows so big the house hasn't enough space for her. The rabbit is scared and sends in the lizard Bill through the chimney but she has a foot in there and kicks him out (pun:chapter title: the rabbit sends in a little Bill :-p). They throw pebbles at her, the pebbles become little cakes and she eats them and is small again. She escapes into the woods; she meets a puppy but she's so small she has to run away. She sees a large mushroom with a "large blue caterpillar sitting on the top": they talk and she learns that "one side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter", of the mushroom of course, so the tries. At first she grows so tall she's taller than any tree and mistaken for a serpent by a pigeon, then she carefully tries the left bit and the right bit until she is her usual size. She comes across a little house so she makes her small again to enter. There's the Duchess with the baby-pig, the cook who uses way too much pepper and the Cheshire-Cat always grinning. When the cook starts throwing things Alice runs away with the baby, but when she realizes it's a pig she lets him loose. She sees again the Cheshire-Cat up on  a tree and asks him for direction then it disappears. Since she's already met hatters in her life and it is now May so she reasons the March Hare won't be all that mad now, she heads to the Hare's house and there she meets the March Hare having tea with the Hatter and a Dormouse, because since the Hatter made Time angry it is now always tea-time for them (six o'clock). She soon tires of it and goes away and finds a door in a tree and she goes through it to find herself back in the room with the glass table and the little door, but now she knows the drill: big enough to take the key, she makes her small enough to enter the little door and she's now in the beautiful garden. It's the Queen of Heart's garden, and cards-gardeners two, five and seven are painting white roses red. The Queen wants to play croquet with Alice, with hedgehogs as balls, flamingos as mallets and the soldiers making the arches. When the Cheshire cat's head appears and they argue about beheading it, they call the Duchess who was in prison for being late. The Duchess is more pleasant when away from pepper, and likes to find a moral in everything. The game ends when all the guests are under sentence of execution (the Queen's very fond of shouting "off with his/her head") and the soldiers have stopped being arches to take them into custody (the King, however, ends up with a general "you are all pardoned")
The Queen wants Alice to hear the Mock Turtle story, so a gryphon takes her to find it and they tell her about their education (the classical master taught Laughing & Grief instead of Latin & Greek :lol: or another way to say Comedy and Tragedy :-p) and show her the Lobster-Quadrille dance, but then the trial begins so they stop and the Gryphon and Alice go to see "who stole the tarts". The Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing them, but there's no proof. Witnesses: the Hatter, the cook and Alice. Some nonsense letters the Knave denies to have written are to be read by the rabbit: "where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" - "Begin at the beginning- the King said very gravely - and go on till you come to the end: then stop" (it's so simple and obvious but I love it)
Alice rebels at the Queen's "sentence first, verdict afterwards" and all the cards "rose up into the air and came flying down upon her". Alice wakes up near her sister, and tells her everything, and what a wonderful dream it has been, and her sister dreams about her and how, one day, Alice might find pleasure in remembering the happy summer-days of her childhood.

ITA Alice nel paese delle meraviglie