Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll, 1865

Children's classics

Alice follows a hurried rabbit into a world where familiar words and rules refuse to behave sensibly.

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Length: 12 chapters
Reading time: About 1 hr 51 min
Words: 26,325

About the book

A sleepy afternoon beside her sister changes when Alice sees a rabbit consulting a watch. Following him down a hole, she enters a succession of encounters in which size, manners and ordinary expectations become unexpectedly difficult to manage.

Carroll's comedy grows from Alice trying to reason with people and situations that resist her reasoning. Conversations turn on literal meanings, verses go astray, and confident explanations produce fresh puzzles. Her persistent curiosity gives the changing scenes a recognisable human centre.

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This edition

Text from Standard Ebooks, who proofread and typeset it and dedicate their edition to the public domain. Lewis Carroll died more than 70 years ago, so the work is out of copyright in the UK. Includes the original all in the golden afternoon, frontispiece.