Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a fascinating and useful story to listen to in its original language. The most wonderful and amazing thing about this story is not the magical transformations and adventures of Alice, but the thoughts and aphorisms, many of which can only be understood and appreciated in adulthood. The author, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, did not intend to write a fairy tale, but it all started on a summer day in 1862 when he began telling a story to Alice Liddell and her sisters during a boat ride. The story gradually grew with surrealistic details and became a parody of the Victorian era. The first manuscript was gifted to Alice with the subtitle 'A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day' and was sold at an auction in 1928 for 15,400 pounds.