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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, 1865
Alice follows a White Rabbit down a hole into a world of riddles, a mad tea party and a furious Queen of Hearts. Carroll's wordplay makes it a lively book to read in English and Spanish side by side.
The opening
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
Alicia comenzaba a cansarse mucho de estar sentada con su hermana en la orilla, sin tener nada que hacer: una o dos veces había echado un vistazo al libro que su hermana estaba leyendo, pero no tenía imágenes ni diálogos, "y de qué sirve un libro", pensó Alicia, "sin imágenes ni diálogos?"
Así pues, estaba considerando en su mente (tan bien como podía, porque el calor del día la hacía sentir muy soñolienta y atolondrada) si el placer de hacer una cadena de margaritas compensaría la molestia de levantarse y recoger las margaritas, cuando de pronto un Conejo Blanco de ojos rosados pasó corriendo a su lado.
En eso no había nada muy extraordinario; ni a Alicia le pareció demasiado raro oír que el Conejo se decía a sí mismo: "¡Dios mío! ¡Dios mío! ¡Voy a llegar tarde!" (cuando lo pensó después, se dio cuenta de que debería haberse sorprendido por esto, pero en aquel momento todo le pareció completamente natural); pero cuando el Conejo efectivamente sacó un reloj del bolsillo de su chaleco, lo miró y luego siguió apresuradamente su camino, Alicia se puso de pie de un salto, porque cruzó por su mente que nunca antes había visto un conejo con un chaleco con bolsillo, ni con un reloj que sacar de él, y ardiendo de curiosidad, corrió por el campo tras él, y afortunadamente llegó justo a tiempo de verlo desaparecer por una gran madriguera bajo el seto.
Machine translation by AI, unedited. Public domain (Lewis Carroll died in 1898).
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