Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
1866 · 228 pages
- Author
- Lewis Carroll
- Edition
- With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel
- Published
- London, Macmillan and Co., 1866
- Pages
- 228
- File
- DjVu, 7.6 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland grew out of a story that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, told the three young Liddell sisters on a boating trip in July 1862. Alice Liddell asked him to write it down; he expanded the tale and published it in 1865 under the pen name Lewis Carroll.
A girl follows a White Rabbit down a hole and lands in a world where nothing behaves as it should. She shrinks and grows, swims in a pool of her own tears, takes advice from a hookah-smoking Caterpillar, sits at the Mad Hatter’s endless tea-party, plays croquet with flamingos for the furious Queen of Hearts and ends up as a witness at the trial of the Knave of Hearts. Along the way Carroll fills the book with nonsense verse, puns and logical puzzles.
The book broke with the moralising children’s stories of its day by setting out simply to amuse, and it has never been out of print. John Tenniel’s drawings of Alice, the Cheshire Cat and the Hatter fixed the way generations of readers picture them.
Contents
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About this edition
The Macmillan edition dated 1866, with forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. The first printing of 1865 was withdrawn because Tenniel was unhappy with how his pictures had been reproduced, so this reprint, made by R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, was the first edition actually sold in Britain. The scan includes the frontispiece, the prefatory poem “All in the golden afternoon” and the contents page; Tenniel’s pictures are printed within the text. The scan has a text layer, and the Wikisource transcription is fully proofread.
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