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Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in English, with French beside it
by Lewis Carroll · 1832–1898
"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.
Summary generated automatically by Project Gutenberg.
- 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
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy;
Sans trop savoir ce qu’elle faisait, elle ramassa un petit bout de bois 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;
aussitôt le chiot sauta en l’air sur toutes ses pattes à la fois, avec un jappement de joie, se rua sur le bâton et fit semblant de le mordiller ;
then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over;
puis Alice esquiva derrière un gros chardon pour ne pas se faire piétiner ;
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 dès qu’elle réapparut de l’autre côté, le chiot fit une nouvelle ruée sur le bâton, et culbuta tête première 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;
alors Alice, pensant que c’était très semblable à jouer avec un cheval de trait, et s’attendant à chaque instant à être écrasée sous ses pattes, contourna de nouveau le 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 contre le bâton, avançant un tout petit peu à chaque fois et reculant beaucoup, aboyant d’une voix rauque tout le temps, jusqu’à ce qu’enfin il s’assît à bonne distance, haletant, la langue
panting, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut.
pendante hors de la 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 parut à Alice une bonne occasion de s’échapper ; elle partit donc aussitôt, et courut jusqu’à être tout à fait fatiguée et hors d’haleine, et jusqu’à ce que l’aboiement du chiot semblât tout à fait faible au loin.
“And yet what a dear little puppy it was!”
« Et pourtant, quel charmant petit chien 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 bien aimé lui apprendre des tours, si—
if I’d only been the right size to do it!
si seulement j’avais été de 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 qu’il faut que je grandisse de nouveau !
Let me see—how is it to be managed?
Voyons—comment est-ce que cela se manie ?
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 eût l’air d’être 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 sa propre hauteur ; et quand elle eut regardé dessous, et
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.
des deux côtés, et derrière, il lui vint à l’idée qu’elle pourrait bien regarder aussi pour voir ce qu’il y avait sur le dessus.
About the author

Lewis Carroll1832–1898
Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832 in Daresbury, was an English author, mathematician, and Anglican deacon who lived most of his life at Christ Church, Oxford.
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Book details
- Original language
- English
- Translation
- French, machine translation
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #11
- Licence
- Public domain worldwide
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