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  2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia

    • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenni… See more

    Background

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was conceived on 4 July 1862, when Lewis Carroll and Reverend
    The … See more

    Plot

    Alice, a young girl, sits bored by a riverbank and spots a White Rabbit with a pocket watch and waistcoat lamenting that he is late. Surprised, Alice follows him down a rabbit hole, which sends her into a lengthy plummet bu… See more

    How Alice and Her Friends Changed Over Time
    How Alice and Her Friends Changed Over Time
    Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a classic children's book with fantastic characters like the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts.
    Characters

    The main characters in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are the following:
    Alice
    The White Rabbit
    The Mouse
    The DodoSee more

    Poems and songs

    Carroll wrote multiple poems and songs for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, including:
    • "All in the golden afternoon..."—the prefatory verse to the book, an original poem by Car… See more

    Writing style and themes

    Carroll's biographer Morton N. Cohen reads Alice as a roman à clef populated with real figures from Carroll's life. Alice is based on Alice Liddell; the Dodo is Carroll; Wonderland is Oxford; even the Mad Hatter's Tea … See more

    Illustrations

    The manuscript was illustrated by Carroll, who added 37 illustrations—printed in a facsimile edition in 1887. John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the published version of the book. The first print run wa… See more

    Publication history

    Carroll first met Alexander Macmillan, a high-powered London publisher, on 19 October 1863. His firm, Macmillan Publishers, agreed to publish Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by sometime in 1864. Carrol… See more

     
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