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by Lewis Carroll · 1832–1898

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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is a children's novel published in 1865. When a curious girl named Alice spots a White Rabbit with a pocket watch, she tumbles down a rabbit hole into an extraordinary fantasy world filled with peculiar anthropomorphic creatures. This pioneering work of literary nonsense plays with logic and language, creating a whimsical tale that delights both children and adults. Illustrated by John Tenniel, it helped transform children's literature from didactic instruction to pure entertainment.

Read time
120 min
Words
26,441
Chapters
12
Paragraphs
811
Price
Free
  • Alice (Fictitious character from Carroll) -- Juvenile fiction
  • Children's stories
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Imaginary places -- Juvenile fiction
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandThe Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy;

sachant presque pas ce qu’elle faisait, elle ramassa un petit bout de bâton et le tendit au chiot ;

whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it;

sur quoi le chiot sauta en l’air de tous ses pieds à la fois, avec un jappement de joie, et se précipita sur le bâton, et fit semblant de le mordre ;

then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over;

puis Alice se cacha derrière un grand chardon, pour éviter d’être renversée ;

and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it;

et au moment où elle apparut de l’autre côté, le chiot fit une autre ruée sur le bâton, et tomba cul par-dessus tête dans sa hâte de l’attraper ;

then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again;

puis Alice, pensant que c’était très semblable à un jeu avec un cheval de trait, et s’attendant à chaque instant à être piétinée sous ses pieds, courut de nouveau autour du chardon ;

then the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off,

puis le chiot commença une série de courtes charges sur le bâton, avançant très peu à chaque fois et reculant beaucoup, et aboyant rauque tout le temps, jusqu’à ce qu’enfin il s’assit à bonne distance,

panting, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut.

haletant, la langue pendante hors de sa gueule, et ses grands yeux à moitié fermés.

This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance.

Cela sembla à Alice une bonne occasion de s’échapper ; elle partit donc aussitôt, et courut jusqu’à ce qu’elle soit tout à fait fatiguée et essoufflée, et jusqu’à ce que l’aboiement du chiot sonne tout à fait faible au loin.

“And yet what a dear little puppy it was!”

« Et pourtant, quel cher petit chiot c’était ! »

said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves: “I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if—

dit Alice, en s’appuyant contre un bouton d’or pour se reposer, et en s’éventant avec une des feuilles : « J’aurais beaucoup aimé lui apprendre des tours, si—

if I’d only been the right size to do it!

si seulement j’avais eu la bonne taille pour le faire !

Oh dear!

Oh là là !

I’d nearly forgotten that I’ve got to grow up again!

J’avais presque oublié que je devais grandir à nouveau !

Let me see—how is it to be managed?

Voyons—comment faut-il s’y prendre ?

I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great question is, what?”

Je suppose que je devrais manger ou boire quelque chose ; mais la grande question est, quoi ? »

The great question certainly was, what?

La grande question était certainement, quoi ?

Alice looked all round her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances.

Alice regarda tout autour d’elle les fleurs et les brins d’herbe, mais elle ne vit rien qui ressemblât à la bonne chose à manger ou à boire dans les circonstances.

There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself;

Il y avait un grand champignon qui poussait près d’elle, à peu près de la même hauteur qu’elle ;

and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it.

et quand elle eut regardé dessous, et des deux côtés, et derrière, il lui vint à l’esprit qu’elle pourrait aussi bien regarder ce qu’il y avait dessus.

Book details

Original language
English
Translation
French
Source text
Project Gutenberg #11
Licence
Public domain worldwide

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