The Complete Novels of Lewis Carroll

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Alison Larkin, Peter Noble

This fresh and hugely entertaining narration, joined with Lewis Carroll’s surreal genius, results in pure, boundless FUN.

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, read by acclaimed comedienne Alison Larkin, brilliantly capture a young girl's feelings about growing up in a nonsensical world. Lewis Carroll's final novel Sylvie and Bruno, read by Audie award-winning narrator Peter Noble, is followed by Carroll's delightful nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark". Exclusive to Audible, this recording also includes an excerpt from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, which shows us how the story of Alice first came to be.

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Critic reviews

"Everyone knows Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. This audio collection adds Sylvie and Bruno and The Hunting of The Snark, the first two narrated by Alison Larkin and the second pair by Peter Noble. Larkin's performances include some interesting sound effects, which emphasize the fantastical nature of the stories. She also uses her remarkable vocal skills to capture the surreal world of Alice. Sylvie and Bruno is sadder, and Noble's reserved treatment suits it well. The Hunting of The Snark is not a novel at all, but a narrative poem, which Noble delivers with appropriate brio. This is a fine collection of Carroll's longer works, worth listening to more than once." (AudioFile)

Outstanding!

This recording is absolutely brilliant. Congratulations Audible! Bring Larkin and Noble together to narrate these great novels was a stroke of inspiration. I love Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and have long been curious about Lewis Carroll's lesser known novel Sylvie and Bruno. To find all these novels in one audiobook was very exciting! I have long been a fan of Alison Larkin's narration of the classics - she has a knack for making even the most challenging classic stories really accessible to the modern ear and her accents and voices are always so entertaining. As a teacher of English literature, I often recommend Larkin's audiobook classics to my students and I will certainly be recommending this recording next time I teach Lewis Carroll.

Larkin's narration is pitch perfect, delightful and the best possible way to introduce the original story to children of all ages. And Peter Noble's narration of the even more challenging Sylvie and Bruno is absolutely fantastic. He has a beautiful voice and he takes this complicated lesser known story to a whole new level. I've read it - and now I have listened to it, as read by Peter Noble and had a sense that Lewis Carroll was reading to me himself.

Two A list narrators at the top of their game reading Lewis Carroll? It doesn't get better than this.