I love the bits where you can hear he's restraining laughter. It's nice to a narrator enjoys what he's reading.

My grandfather worked at Nimbus records. As a very young child I got first hand experience of this performance. I listened to it, and the looking glass, sooo many times. Sir John was something absolutely special that I'm not sure exists in the world anymore.

Finally!! The other six or seven versions I have listened to seem to think it's a race to get to the end. I love this book, and now I listen to it to relax and unwind. With most versions they read so fast they run the words into each other. I don't want to have to work hard to hear the story, I like to relax and let the story wash over me. Sir John reads it perfectly, every word is clearly enunciated. My only problem is the music, although lovely, sometimes drowns out the voice!

Beautifully read by Sir John. Note: the music only plays for a short time at the beginning and at the very end. Thanks for posting this, Roman.

Such a pleasant experience. Feels like we are seated near him, in some elegant old drawing room somewhere, and maybe some tea has been prepared. The brief musical interludes are very pretty, and luckily they don't interfere with the reading-- it's merely an intro/interlude to establish mood or to bridge chapters, and doesn't interfere with Gielgud's perfect and proper narration. He's clearly enjoying this, the character voices and such.

Well, this is a treat! I always wondered what this particular read version sounded like and it is quite good! Lovely to hear the Victorian tone kept front and center. While a big fan of the late Christopher Plummer, I was disappointed with his move towards trendy characterizations in his recording of the complete ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Plummer was such an excellent actor and why he stooped to that level of spoon-feeding listeners is beyond me. My absolute favorite recorded reading of both ALICE books remains the complete texts read and performed by Cyril Ritchard with incidental music composed by Alec Wilder. I still have the big boxed 33 rpm LP-recording sets with the facsimile first edition volumes tucked into a cardboard pocket behind the records. After sixty-some years nothing tops those two treasures. They were clearly an act of love for Ritchard who really understood those classics' elements of nonsensical absurdity and fun. For adapted dramatized renderings nothing beats the 1950s CAEDMON recordings with Joan Greenwood as Alice and Stanley Holloway as the narrator leading an exemplary British cast. While abridged they are respectful to the letter of Carroll's text and after hearing Greenwood's unique vocalization one would be hard pressed to imagine anybody else; she gets Alice's essential sophisticated determination and her "inner adult". Thanks very much for posting this!

This is absolutely magical. I cannot think of a voice I'd rather hear reading this work.

So magical. You go down a rabbit hole and come back up stronger.

I’ve listened to this audiobook three times in the past two months (at work)… very fun way to pass time.

Now this is a most apt reading!! Bravo!! Many thanks for sharing. 👏

Love the musical interludes. Great read. In fact, using this voice in my head I can write in The Style of Lewis Carroll with greater ease.

Excellent! One forgets about problems while listening. I think the music adds to the recording.

The music appears to cover the introductions and conclusions of each chapter.

Love this voice actor the most. Thank you for the upload 💛

I was reading along with this (I'm dyslexic and was hoping this would help keep my brain focused and stop my eyes wandering the pages) and I had to stop a few pages in because several chunks or even whole paragraphs are missing in the audio. Pretty disappointed :(

Wonderfully read ! Thank you !

My mother read me the Alice stories (as well as the Just So stories and Mary Poppins). She sang all the songs rather more tunefully than Sir John! That was in 1950.

Beautifully read...

I am glad to find this! Good voice!

Hot take: I like the music and think it adds to the experience

Beautiful and tranquil

SPECTACULAR!! Thank You For This.

wonderful i must buy the book

Thank you this WILL HELP ME WITH MY AR

This is so pleasant and charming. I love it.

marvelous!

godamnit!! i just wanna hear it while sleepin but these adds are killing me!! ugh, ill just have to download it...

Beautiful music.

A shame that there are parts missed out... The Caucus Race, The White Rabbit's House, the song in the Duchess' Kitchen. Why?

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The classical segments are a bit too long for my tastes. Had it been a small pause between chapters it would be very pleasant but as it is, it’s fairly distracting. An excellent reading however as Sir Gielgud’s voice is always pleasing to listen to. Thank you for sharing this.

Why does it sound as if it was recorded in the room next door? Am I the only one who can barely hear his great voice and acting?????

lovely music is besides the point. it obscures the voice, the reading of the book. that is almost as bad as a voice (loud talk) obscuring the music at a concert! It's sad to me that I cannot enjoy such a lovely, dreamy reading because I can barely hear it above the music. if I could download, separate the voice and music tracks, and lower the music track a few decibels, I'd totally do that. I'd also never hire this sound engineer.

I can't hear the words because of the music!

It is SO disappointing that Gielgud, who is surely among the best "Alice" readers, reads abridged versions of both this book and "Through the Looking-Glass." And the echo gives his voice an annoying booming quality.

what songs are playing in the background? i love them

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CAN ANYONE PLEASE DIRECT ME TO WHEN ALICE SAYS “things were much more pleasant at home, when one wasn’t growing smaller and larger and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn’t gone down the rabbit hole- and yet-“

I'm very confused as to why several sections of the story are missing, like the Caucus Race and getting trapped in the Rabbit's house.

You made my teacher make me to whatch this

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Why is this version different from most???

Bliss.

Forget this youtube copy. Audio is terrible. Sounds like Sir John is reading out loud in the basement with the door closed and I'm upstairs by the fire!

1:25:38 for those doing wolsey hall

Hey...just a state of mind. TEA NOW!

Mi assistant manager on google took me here

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Book mark for myself: 41:46 47:00

The music should not have been allowed to obscure his wonderful voice.

Abridged. Heavily 😞

The reverb was added later?

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Why is Sir John Gielgud reading this book in the lavatory?

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So many cuts! :(

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Misleading title since abridged with music excerpts, not to mention a fuckton of ads.

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2:53( to save my spot :)

this is diffrent tothe movie

!!!!!!!!!!!!

the sound quality is poor. too bad

Why the anoying music

He might be a good actor but he is a very poor narrator

Rubbish LoL

Audio is terrible,sounds like the author is reading it from inside a whale,the music drowns out the words

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