El siguiente texto es un extracto del libro Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Updated & Adapted Edition for Young Readers (ISBN: 9798899562716) Conocerlo, entenderlo, interpretarlo y ayudarlo, escrito por Lewis Carroll, publicado por de Vecchi /DVE ediciones.
Chapter 1 – Down The Rabbit-Hole
Alice was getting very bored sitting beside her sister on the riverbank. She had nothing to do. Once or twice, she peeked into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations. “What’s the use of a book without pictures or talking?” she thought.
She was wondering if making a daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting up to pick the flowers when, suddenly, a white rabbit with pink eyes ran past her.
There was nothing too strange about that—until the Rabbit said, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I’m going to be late!” Later, Alice realized she should have been surprised. But at the time, it all seemed normal. Then the Rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket, checked the time, and hurried off.
Alice jumped to her feet. She had never seen a rabbit with clothes, let alone a watch! Burning with curiosity, she ran after it, just in time to see it disappear into a large hole under the hedge.
Without a second thought, Alice followed it.
The rabbit-hole went straight like a tunnel, then dropped suddenly—so suddenly Alice had no time to stop herself before she found herself falling down what seemed a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she was falling slowly, because she had plenty of time to look around. The sides of the well had cupboards and shelves, with maps and pictures hanging on pegs. She passed a jar labelled “Orange Marmalade.” It was empty, so she put it back on another shelf as she fell.
“After a fall like this, I won’t be afraid of tumbling down stairs again!” she thought.
“They’ll think I’m so brave at home!”
Down, down, down she went. “I wonder how far I’ve fallen,” she said aloud. “Maybe I’m near the centre of the Earth—four thousand miles down… but what about latitude and longitude?” She didn’t know what those words meant, but they sounded impressive.
She imagined falling right through the Earth and meeting people who walk upside down. “Please, ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?” she pictured herself asking, trying to curtsey while falling.
She also thought of her cat. “Dinah will miss me tonight! I hope someone remembers her milk. I wish she were here—maybe she could catch a bat. But do cats eat bats? Or do bats eat cats?” She repeated the questions dreamily until she began to doze off.
Suddenly—thump! thump! She landed on a pile of sticks and dry leaves. The fall was over.
Alice wasn’t hurt at all when she landed. She jumped to her feet and looked up, but everything above was dark. Ahead, she saw another long passage — and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying away.
There was no time to lose. Off went Alice like the wind. She turned a corner just in time to hear it say, “Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!”
She raced after it, but the Rabbit had vanished. Instead, Alice found herself in a long, low hall lit by a row of lamps hanging from the ceiling.
There were doors all around, but every one of them was locked. After trying each in turn and finding none would open, Alice walked down the middle of the hall, wondering how she’d ever get out.
Then she spotted a small three-legged glass table. On it was only one thing — a tiny golden key. Maybe this opens one of the doors! she thought. But the locks were all too big or the key too small — nothing fit.
On her second walk around, she noticed a low curtain she’d missed before. Behind it was a little door, only about fifteen inches high. She tried the key, and to her delight, it fit perfectly.
The door opened into a small passage — more like a tunnel for a rat — and at the other end she could see the loveliest garden imaginable. Bright flowerbeds and cool fountains shimmered in the sunlight.
Oh, how she longed to be there! But she couldn’t even fit her head through the doorway. And even if my head went through, she thought, what use would it be without my shoulders? I wish I could fold myself up like a telescope!
She returned to the table, hoping to find another key or maybe instructions on how to shrink. Instead, she found a small bottle that hadn’t been there before. Around its neck was a label with the words DRINK ME written in large, beautiful letters.
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