Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Published in 1865, this world-famous classic with its cast of much-loved characters transformed children's literature, bringing its author lasting fame.

Lewis Carroll (Author), John Tenniel (Illustrated by)

9781108059589, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 January 2013

210 pages, 44 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.2 cm, 0.27 kg

An accomplished mathematician and photographer, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–98), writing under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, transformed children's literature with this world-famous classic. First published in 1865, this tale of the topsy-turvy was originally created to entertain the young Alice Liddell and her sisters during a picnic in the summer of 1862. The humour with which Dodgson enlivened his mathematical works is exploited to the full here: many of the now-familiar nonsense songs and poems in the story are parodies of contemporary works, and there are a number of allusions to mathematical concepts in the text. The illustrations by Punch cartoonist Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914) depict the cast of much-loved characters - including the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter - with a brilliance which perfectly enhances Dodgson's gently satirical fantasy. In its universal appeal, the story remains unsurpassed.

1. Down the rabbit hole
2. The pool of tears
3. A caucus-race and a long tale
4. The rabbit sends in a little bill
5. Advice from a caterpillar
6. Pig and pepper
7. A mad tea-party
8. The queen's croquet-ground
9. The mock turtle's story
10. The lobster quadrille
11. Who stole the tarts
12. Alice's evidence.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]