Although Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass has been recreated many time, the spirit of the story still remains intact. Many movies have been created since the early nineteen hundreds, but similar to other novels that have been created into movies, it is not quite the same as the book. Some of the Alice movies leave out many details and emphasize on ... can't always recreate something to its fullest. Another example of a movie not being able to hold true to Lewis Carol's version was the Disney version. The Disney version mixed in Alice's Adventures In Wonderland A...

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... book she is described as being very ugly with a sharp chin. In Martin Gardener's footnotes to the annotated edition of Alice, he suggests that she was based upon a real fourteenth-century duchess named Margaretha Maltausch, known as "the ugliest woman in history". Also, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles made some what of a mockery of simple day to day items. The Mock Turtle is a made-up ... animal based upon a pun. In Charles Dodgson's day, turtle soup was considered a great delicacy, but was very expensive. As a result, many people ... them a story; he obliges, composing one...

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... helped keep himself and his siblings entertained with stories and drawings he contributed to a family magazine. Dodgson enjoyed making up stories for children, three such children being Alice Liddell and her sisters, which is whom "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" were created for. After a very brief life spent enchanting children and their parents with fantastical tales about scary Jabberwocky's and ... disappearing cats, Carroll succumbed to bronchitis in 1898 (858-859). "The Jabberwocky," which was written in 1872, and is one of Carroll's most well-known works, is ...

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