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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a book by Lewis Carroll. |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a canonical work of children's literature by Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends and to the lessons which British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that has made the story of lasting popularity with children, mathematicians, and users of psychedelics. |
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The book was published on July 4, 1865, exactly on the third anniversary of some event in the life of its author. Namely on July 4, 1862 Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat up the River Thames with three little girls (Liddell girls): |
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The book was published on July 4, 1865, exactly three years after Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat up the River Thames with three little girls (Liddell girls): |
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The journey had started at Folly Bridge near Oxford, England and ended five miles away in a village of Godstow. During the journey the Reverend Dodgeson made up and told the girls a story. The story later after much more literary work emerged as one of the most famous books in the history of English children's literature. |
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The journey had started at Folly Bridge near Oxford, England and ended five miles away in a village of Godstow. During the journey the Reverend Dodgson made up and told the girls a story, which he later developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. |
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*Chapter 4 -- The Rabbit Send in a Little Bill |
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*Chapter 4 -- The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill |
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Absurdly enough, a small girl is following a rabbit into a rabbit's hole. She drops down a well entering an dream underworld of the Paradox, the Absurd and the Improbable. |
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A small girl named Alice is bored while on a picnic with her sister. She find interest in a white rabbit, dressed in a topcoat and muttering "I'm late!", which she follows down a rabbit's hole. She drops down into dream underworld of paradox, the absurd and the improbable. As she attempts to follow the rabbit, she has several misadventures. She meets a group of small animals stranded in a sea of her own tears, then gets trapped in the rabbit's house, meets a baby which changes into a pig and a cat which disappears, goes to a never-ending tea party, plays croquet with an anthropomorphized deck of cards, goes to the shore and meets some more odd creatures, until the story ends with the Knave of Hearts being put on trial for stealing some tarts, and Alice waking up underneath a tree back with her sister. |
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